Bowden, Rob (2007). Earth's Water Crisis. Pleasantville, NY: World Almanac Library.
May be being a vegetarian is not a bad idea. May be most of us will have to be vegetarians one day for the sake of saving a scarce resource. It’s 70.7% of Earth’s surface, but only 2.5% of this essential source for life we can actually use (p.6). It’s water that keeps our biological world running. It’s so important to humans that your body may shut down if you don’t drink it for 48 hours (p.4). With this in mind, it’s said that 4 billion people, which is more than half the people in the world, have scarce supply of water or just barely enough (p.4). What we can do to help those other half people in the world is to include this concept into educational programs, or, what I think will work without question, is to make water more expensive in places with no shortages. The reason I brought up vegetarianism is to show the difference in the need of water to produce the same amount of different foods. For production of 2.2 pounds of potatoes you’ll need 400 gallons of water, and for 2.2 pounds of beef you’ll need 18,500 gallons of water. Which one is more helping those people with scarce supply of water? You may never want to be a vegetarian, but this is something to think about. Or, you already may be a proud vegetarian who knows this choice of life style has a positive effect on our water supply.
May be being a vegetarian is not a bad idea. May be most of us will have to be vegetarians one day for the sake of saving a scarce resource. It’s 70.7% of Earth’s surface, but only 2.5% of this essential source for life we can actually use (p.6). It’s water that keeps our biological world running. It’s so important to humans that your body may shut down if you don’t drink it for 48 hours (p.4). With this in mind, it’s said that 4 billion people, which is more than half the people in the world, have scarce supply of water or just barely enough (p.4). What we can do to help those other half people in the world is to include this concept into educational programs, or, what I think will work without question, is to make water more expensive in places with no shortages. The reason I brought up vegetarianism is to show the difference in the need of water to produce the same amount of different foods. For production of 2.2 pounds of potatoes you’ll need 400 gallons of water, and for 2.2 pounds of beef you’ll need 18,500 gallons of water. Which one is more helping those people with scarce supply of water? You may never want to be a vegetarian, but this is something to think about. Or, you already may be a proud vegetarian who knows this choice of life style has a positive effect on our water supply.
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