Fresh water

Water is the basis for the functioning of all ecosystemsplanet. Many countries feel an acute shortage of fresh fresh water today. According to the UN experts, for 1/6 of the population, access to drinking water is limited, and for 1/3 access is limited even to technical water used in everyday life - to water that can not be called drinking water.

What causes the problem of fresh water?

First of all - the growth of population. Every year, the number of people on the planet increases by about 85 million, which, accordingly, increases the consumption of water.

The geometric progression is increasing and pollutionenvironment of various kinds of garbage, including sewage. Already in this century, world needs will significantly exceed freshwater supplies.

Global warming forces more intensivelymelt glaciers, storing two-thirds of the reserves of all fresh water. In the Alps, for example, glaciers lose up to 1% per year. It turns out that the loss is 10% every 10 years, 20% every 20 years. And this means that by the end of this century from the glaciers, perhaps, there will be nothing left. The same applies to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia. Moreover, the melting of Alaska glaciers accelerated twice.

Plus, the melting of Arctic ice was accelerated,which will inevitably cause an increase in the level of the World Ocean. And this means that in the next 20-30 years under the water may be London, Berlin, Paris, New York, St. Petersburg, other cities.

According to classified statements of analystsThe Pentagon, climate change will soon cause the largest floods, will lead to global catastrophes. It is not difficult to guess the consequences: serious military conflicts will begin. Drinking water will become strategic object No. 1. Its reserves will decrease so much that the government of most countries will have to protect their resources by resorting to weapons, with mass destruction. Wars for the possession of sources of fresh water can begin around the world. The current situation of the authors of the report was equated with what was happening about 8000 years ago: crop failures, famine, epidemics, mass migrations, fierce wars.

Fresh water in Russia is one third of the totalworld stock. It turns out that it is Russia that automatically becomes the main object for encroachments, a potential tidbit for most countries.

What does Lake Baikal alone cost? This is pure fresh water, the volume of which is equal to the volume of the five Great Lakes in North America, which is 23,000 cubic meters. km! This is 20% of the total fresh water of the whole planet. Baikal has no analogues.

Actually, fresh water has become a strategicgoods already now. We are no longer surprised by plastic bottles with plain water on the shelves of stores, although it was a rarity 20 years ago on the territory of the CIS (former USSR). Every year more than 100 billion liters of water are sold, the profit from the sale is fantastic: a trillion dollars annually (and this is approximately). This is about half the income of all oil companies. Everything goes to the fact that a business built on clean water (without quotes, in the literal sense) will become the most profitable. It is possible that clean fresh water will become a deficit even for our children ...

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