What is Water Scarcity?

1. Water
Scarcity

2. Ratio of Water and Land on earth:
30%
Land
70%
Wate
r

3. Not enough of
water to Drink?

4. What is Water Scarcity?
Is lack of water to meet the demand( Quantity)
or lack of access to safe water. (Quality)
Economic Scarcity
Physical Scarcity

5. Economic Scarcity:
Developed world finding reliable resource of safe water
is often consuming and expensive.
lack of compassion and good governance
that allows the condition to persist.
Does not have the necessary monetary
to utilize an adequate source of water.
A unequal distribution of resources.
Political and ethnic conflict. etc

6. Physical Scarcity:
Some area lack of water is more profound problem.
Physical access to water is limited.
The demand outstrips the lands ability to provide the
needed water.
Happen in dry part of world or arid region.

7. “Cause ofWater
Scarcity”

8. Population growth

9. Cause by| Climate change

10. Legislation and water
resource management

11. Water Quality

12. Water demand

13. „Affect of Water scarcity‟
WITHOUT 2

14. Health |Life |disease| Agricultural

15. Health |Life |disease| Agricultural
1 out of every 4 deaths under the age of 5
worldwide is due to a water-related disease.

16. Health |Life |disease | Agricultural
80%
Illness cause by unsafe water and
Sanitation condition
in world.

17. Health |Life |disease| Agricultural
One quarter of the
global population
also live in developing countries that
face water shortages due to a lack of
infrastructure to fetch water from rivers
and aquifers.

18. Health |Life |disease| Agricultural
More than 10% of people
worldwide consume foods
irrigated by wastewater that
can contain chemicals or
disease-causing
organisms..

19. FOCUS| Lack of unsafe water
„Imminent Water Crisis in India‟ Nina Brooks, August 2007
‘’India currently has the world’s second largest population.’’

20. Manmade problem
 Extremely poor management, unclear laws,
government corruption, and industrial
 Human waste have caused this water supply crunch.
#Indian government must balance competing demands between rich
and poor, the economy and the environment.

21. REFERENCE| water scarcity
http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-india.asp
http://www.unesco.org
http://www.google.com
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/water/e
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/wbp/global-water-crisis/606
http://www.africanwater.org/drought_water_scarcity.htm