The document discusses problems with clean water as a 21st century disaster. It notes that water is essential for all life but that pollution and overuse of water resources threatens the future availability of clean water. The lack of clean water can lead to many problems like extinction of species, increased fires, droughts, floods, and economic issues. Several factors contribute to water problems, including industrial development, power plants, and human waste. The document urges people to work together to conserve water and reduce pollution in order to avoid a potential disaster caused by a lack of clean access to clean water.

1. 21 century disasters
Problems with clean water
By IunAnastasiia, PSY-111
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek
yunnastya@mail.ru

2. Disaster is one of the most dangerous and unpleasant events in people’s
lives. Nowadays the number of disasters increases what can lead to deplorable
results. We can count numerous disasters and their consequences like floods,
earthquakes, bomb attacks, devastating fires, draught, extreme weather, climate
change, economic collapses and so on, but I would like to warn people about
future deficiency of clean water, pollution of water which exists already, and
consequences of water problems. The problems with water cause a lot of
different unpleasant events, other disasters, death and so on. So we must take
care of our water.
Water is a life. No one can
imagine his/her life without it. It is a
universal fact that one cannot live
without water for three days as the
liquid is part of the chemical
consumption of human body. For
example, our brain is protected by
cerebrospinal fluid which is refreshed
every three hours. It protects brain
from blows, rapid movements and so
on. The production of it depends on water intake. If we stop drinking water for a
while the difficulties in the cerebrospinal fluid production will occur which will
stimulate our brain to “dry out” which will lead to death. So you see water is
essential for everyone. The lack of it will inevitably lead to extinction of people.
Another problem is that water is essential, for all life beings in the world
and the lack of it will lead to the destruction of feed circle on the planet. If one
species dies the circle will be destroyed which will lead to extinction of many
other species and to a supernormal number of
another species which can also lead to different
disasters. The balance in life will be destroyed. For
example if the population kangaroos in Australia
will be decreased the amount of grass will increase.
As everyone knows Australia is a very dry continent.
So much grass will dry out at dry seasons and this
means that the number of fires will elevate there.

3. Not only can the extinction of species cause fires on the planet, but also
the climate change because of lack of water. Lack of water also means that the
temperature of air will increase which will lead to fires as well as to draughts.
Riverbeds will be empty or almost empty; glaciers will melt because of the high
temperatures. The melting of Antarctic glaciers first will increase the ocean level.
A lot of islands will be flooded. Then water will dry. It also can lead to the
greenhouse effect.
The smoke of factories also makes glaciers melt. When smoke reaches
glaciers it covers them with the layer of black dust. Black color attracts sunlight
which melts the glaciers. After what more than normal amount of water will flow
down the mountains which will flood the lands. However the number of glaciers
will decrease and soon we will have problems with water.
Another very essential problem is the pollution of water. Most of the
countries have dirty and disgusting water now. Water is not water nowadays. It is
so spoiled in some regions that no any life lives there. Such kind of water is dead
and any useful for us minerals are dead there. This is the water we receive when
we turn on taps.
One of the factors that pollute water
ispeople. It is normal for people to throw
everything to water starting from pins and
ending with fridges. People do not think
what they do, good things or not. They do
think at all that for batteries, for example,
water is not the best place to be in as they
contain some chemicals that are dangerous for fish we eat, for water we drink
and swim in.
The development of industry needs water as well. Plants,nuclear power
plants and other units of industry use water for profit. They throw away all their
remains into water. And this water waters fields from which we get vegetables
and fruit. Just think what kind of food we eat now. It is not surprising that more
and more people have health problems because of food nowadays. It is also not
surprising that some severe mutations appear in our bodies.
Water pollutions leads to ecological and environmental problems. Without
clean water nothing will be able to survive. Trees and other vegetation will

4. gradually die. Everyone knows that forests are the lungs of our planet. If
vegetation disappears who or what will supply us with clean air? Nothing and no
one will. It is evident for everyone that 40 percent of spoiled air on the roads is
absorbed by vegetation. As well as the number of cars increases I do not know
what will happen with our air if vegetation dies. People should think over it.
Problems with water can lead to economic problems. The prices will go up
and it will almost impossible to drink enough water. Water is used everywhere
and when there is a lack of it all products will be in low number and extremely
expensive. The country will become poor. Cost of water will be much higher than
the cost of gold or oil.
Yes, water problem is one of the most tragic problems now. Everyone
knows that soon there will be no water in Asia which disappoints me very much
as I live in Central Asia. Many Asian countries have big problems with water
supply and usually water is spoiled. I have a friend form Tajikistan and she says
that the place she lives in is dry and water is awful there. So it is a real problem.
Nevertheless I think we can improve our real situation. If everyone on the
planet will think and worry about water and do something to make our life happy
we will see a good result. To save our water we should think over how much
water we use. Everyone must control his/her use of water. If people do not need
water the taps must be turned off. Maybe one fact will stimulate people to do so.
If we leave water running out of the tape, even the size of the stream is the same
as the size of match, we will lose 300 liters every twenty-four hours.
We also must stop throwing away any rubbish into the river. Rivers, lakes,
seas, oceans must be cleaned. Even if every person will take a plastic bottle or
smoothing else out of water and throw it into the rubbish bins our water will
become cleaner. People can organize some competitions where the task will be
collecting rubbish. Of course participants must be awarded. Prizes will encourage
them to clean water.
Another method is putting the best filters on the pipes of every pant and
car. The air and water will not be so polluted. Of course, our governments must
help us to establish laws which will punish those who does not use filters or those
whose filters are out of the date. Plants must first recycle the water they use
many times according to modern standards, nuclear power stations must reuse
the same water they first took out of the river.

5. We can do everything if we do it together. Let’s take
care of our water and we will have clean water and
enough.
So the water problem is very serious nowadays. As
you see more and more countries have problems with
water supply and getting clean water. Lack of water can
lead to frightening consequences like extinction, fires,
draughts, floods, economic problems and so on. Polluted water is another
problem which can affect our life with different results. Many factors play role in
the water problem like development of industry, works of different plants, and
ordinary humans. We cannot live without water and we must work together to do
our best to save it clean as the absence of clean water will be a great disaster.