Mark Rosegrant's Challenges And Policies For Global Hunger

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Water shortages are currently an egregious situation globally and if they are not resolved, a plethora of worse consequences could arise. Citizens need to think about their daily activities and possibly consider revising a few if needed. Moreover, if citizens have not changed their certain daily activities now, they will be forced to in the future years when an enormous scarcity of water happens. Last, there are various solutions to the water shortages; however, humans must take action in order to perform them. Worldwide hunger is one major cause of water shortages and if the water supplies are not resolved, global hunger will increase dramatically. As asserted in Mark Rosegrant’s article Challenges and Policies for Global Water and Food Security, “by 2050, 155 million people are projected to be at risk of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, 140 million in South Asia, and 530 million across the developing regions.”(7) In other …show more content…

As mentioned on Water Charity’s site, “diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.”(Why Water) On the other hand, although water is beneficial for all civilians, it is probably better to fast than to drink dirty water. Moreover, Almost fifty percent of these deaths are children under five years old that could be saved just by improving sanitation according to Water Charity’s site. ( Why Water) Millennials need to take action in areas with such egregious sanitation as more citizens die there and once those citizens who can afford to move to a more developed area like the United States or Britain move there, developed areas will become overpopulated and a water crisis will happen there which could possibly result in a lot more deaths than the underdeveloped areas. Last, water scarcity is crucial and should not be ignored or else the most developed nation will

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