Water Scarcity is Becoming a Major Problem in Businesses
The competition for water is starting is making more and more companies and
governments treat water as a precious resource. The water scarcity is starting to
become more and more of a problem especially for water companies, which also
means that the competition is getting bigger because each company wants to make
the best water out there to try and get more people to buy that kind of water. Other
companies that are trying to get ahead of the water problem include places like
Sabmiller, which have worked with the Nature Conservancy to help protect the
freshwater sources in Latin America. Of course, governments can also act. For
example, take Singapore for instance, they get a lot of rain– in fact they get on
average it rains there about 178 days per year, but the problem is that there is a lot
of people there that it is hard for them to be able to catch and store water, so the
demand for it is still really high. “Only 3% of the world’s water is fresh– water, and
two-thirds of that is tucked away in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for our
use.” We do not have a lot of fresh-water that is available for us to use and most of
it is in frozen glaciers so we can not get to it and use it. There is not a lot of
freshwater that is available to us at our fingertips. And because of this about 1.1
billion people worldwide do not have access to water and at least 2.7 billion people
find water scarce for at least one month of the entire year. Water scarcity is a huge
problem for a lot of people and especially to the people who do not have access to
water everyday just like we do here in the United States.