Water crisis has become a major global epidemic; rivers are drying up, lakes being polluted or inadequate drinking water. As human populations and economies grow, global freshwater demand has been increasing rapidly (Pimenel al et., 2004, p. 909). People are beginning to over consume resources, making it harder for them to recover. Water crisis are a mixture of unregulated water policies, inequity, sub-par sustainability practices, and lack of care for freshwater structures. Earth having five large oceans and many rivers, streams, lakes and ponds clean water is important an important necessity for people to live on earth. Humans have gone to extreme measures by overusing natural elements, resulting in drastic environmental changes, mainly within water resources. This study is meant to show proof of water crisis and the impacts that could come from them. The Flint water crisis is a recent, yet prime, example of how not keeping a watchful eye on water regulations and policy reinforcements can backfire. The events that took place in Michigan, from brown lead filled water running though homes to how Flint will recover and all of the details in between that …show more content…
The purpose of this paper is to inform people about the dangers that could happen if there are not better steps taken on how to conserve and preserve water better. Something you take for granite every day, could dry up, be contaminated and unusable at any point in time. Places like the Rio Grande have been dried up, “All the water has been taken out by cities and farmers upstream. "The river's been disappearing since the fifties” (Pearce, 2009, p. 9). The main problem is that we have let water quality and quantity policies get swept under the rug for so long the cost to fix it has gone up. To end the water crisis there needs to be more of an awareness to the public first, then will begin to see change