Environmental Concerns And Its Effects On Our Future...

Water America is known for many great things, however it is also the butt of many jokes regarding our â€Å"bigger is better† lifestyle and our need for more. Now though, I realize the seriousness of these jokes come from the truth of our wasteful ways of living and our over use of nonrenewable resources. Ironically then how now we have gone so far that we are literally eating up one of earth s most valuable renewable resources: water. We Americans use more water than another country, including China whose population is more than double our own. If we do not decrease our dependency of this life sustaining resource than not only will we be destroying the world for our future generations, but we’ll be destroying the world for all future†¦show more content†¦Jennifer Wagner creator of a website called Fresh Water Crisis in which she states that water is above all other resources, â€Å"With resources like electricity, you can produce more to meet demand of a grow ing population. Water does not function this way. The balance between the number of people and the amount of available freshwater is dangerous.† But here we are as Americans using our water for shows and entertainment, building huge fountains rather saving waterfalls. A question that many of us don t think about is where our water comes from and the first thing that we imagine is a kitchen sink or maybe a refrigerator but really it comes from rain and lakes that collect rain, but other than that there is no real fresh water on earth. Majority of Earths drinking water is unusable. While the Earth is mostly made of water only 1 percent of the total water is actually drinkable. That means that 99 percent of it is not usable or safe to digest, on top of this 70 percent of the freshwater on Earth is frozen in ice caps. You dont have to be good at math to learn then that we are only able to use 30 percent of the total fresh water on this planet. Steven Solomon, the author of Water: The Epic Struggle For Wealth, Power, and Civilization states that Water is overtaking oil as our scarcest natural resource in the world, and how many have we been told we were going to run out of