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Netflix - Water Crisis - Coggle Diagram
Netflix - Water Crisis
Global Perspective
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Also depends on how we use water. 8% for personal use, 70% towards agriculture and 22% to industry.
True cost of water doesn't add up to the cost of a burger which actually consists of 1650 litres of water in one-quarter pound
Many people around the world think that water is granted for and think there will always be enough of it, thus using it in absurd ways
People dump 2M tons of sewage, agricultural and industrial waste into it everyday
Once a brewery starts, the underground water would become less sufficient, making it more difficult for farmers to produce crops
Countries around the world are now competing over water based on how scarce they are and how much they think they deserve it
Not sure as to how to make sure that water is valued but yet an invaluable resource while ensuring everyone has it
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An Action Plan
Increase the price of water to make sense out of agriculture to not be growing crops in unfruitful areas like deserts. Governments would think its worth it to repair the water infrastructure
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Making a deal to create a place where production of water or any product that has to do with it can help make people see the value of water and how the people are making an effort to produce as much water as possible in order to survive. It can also create permanent job vacancies for those looking for a job and one that is meaningful
Make it possible to extract surface water to in order send a warning about competition between people on water
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Desalinate the water so that it is easier to produce clean water, but still hasn't figured out how expensive it could possibly be
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People must start conserving water in order to push back Day Zero should their country be expecting one and be released to the public about their water situation
A Local Perspective
Mexico City gets more rain than London, yet there are no more lakes that could collect that water, thus the city floods. But they still need to pipe in most of their water from other parts of Mexico. It's aquifers only take 50% of the water extracted and thus lose 50% of their supply of water in the next 30-50 years
Aquifers also compress the soil, thus making the ground more lose and causing Mexico City to slowly sink into the ground
Mexico City loses almost half of its water supply to leaky systems, making all that valuable water redundant and wasted
By the time the Colorado River reaches the city of Mexicali, its just a barren wasteland due to global average temperatures rising and causing less snow, which the main source of water from the Colorado River
Farmers would be against the idea of extracting surface water as it will affect their water supply used for their agricultural business
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A Prediction
Cities like Bangalore, Tokyo and Melbourne will all face their own Day Zero (A day where all water supplies have to be cut off) in the next few decades unless their water use radically changes
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People will be prompted to think that companies will take advantage of scarcity to turn it into profit