Climate change and water supply problem in Monterrey
Social problems
People have to learn to live with only six hours a day of pumping drinking water
Low-income people have to adapt to schedules
People start to get upset
No solutions to the problem offered by the government
In stores there are days when there is no bottled water to drink
Not only low-income people are upset but high-income people too
Roadblocks of disgruntled inhabitants to protest
Other measures are applied to reduce consumption
Rate increases
Fines for watering the garden and washing the car using drinking water
Water consumption rates per cubic meter were increased
Enviormental problems
Due to lack of water various problems can develop
Las plantas y arboles no pueden ser regados por lo que empiezan a morir
Afectación de animales por falta de agua
Crops made by farmers die
Food is scarce
Lack of air purification
Pollution goes up
A chain reaction can be released because water is the basic component for the survival of all organisms
Water use in the world
Water consumption by sectors
Agriculture accounts for 70% of water consumption
Industrial use represents 20%
Only 10% is consumed in homes
70% of the planet is water
Only 2% is fit to consume
The extraction of drinking water has tripled in the last 50 years.
Droughts
The number and duration of droughts have increased by 29% since 2000
Countries with most water consumption in tne world
USA
China
Brazil
Russia
Mexico
Opinion
The water consumption has been increasing every year and nowadays, it may not be noticeable much, but soon the scarcity of water and how much it is needed will begin to be noticed. We must be more responsible in the use of water and not waste it because it is precious and limited, one day it will run out and it is best not to be soon.
Similar cases and celebrities
In Los Angeles California in 2021 there was a case of water shortage
There were regulations that limited water consumption to 55 gallons per person
Consuming more water than the limit required an additional charge
Complaints were received that some celebrities were excessive in the use of water
Kevin Heart
Kourtney Kardashian
Silvester Stallone
Dwayne Wade
References
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Climate change
As is well known, climate change is directly related to water
The climate change nowadays has turned into a problem now called Global Warming
This has caused glaciers meltdowns
One of the places were water sin't salted
Imbalance in nature
Sea level rise
Natural disasters
Changes in ecosystems
Celebrities that act against global warming
Leonardo DiCaprio
Launched a namesake foundation in 1998 to "bring together the best minds in science, conservation and philanthropy to urgently respond to a growing climate crisis and the staggering loss of biodiversity threatening the stability of life on Earth,"
Greta Thunberg
Shailene Woodley
Jaden Smith
In 2015 he created JUST Water, a company that strives to make an alternative to petroleum-based products that require plastic and emit CO2 in production.
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Martínez C., Marcos. (2022). En México, Monterrey sufre por una intensa sequía. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from: https://www.latimes.com/espanol/mexico/articulo/2022-06-21/en-mexico-monterrey-sufre-por-una-intensa-sequia
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Reflection: What I was able to learn from this research was the fact that water and climate change go hand in hand. Climate change has become a well-known problem in these times called global warming and this affects the entire planet, unbalances it, and we have caused this with our excessive consumption of resources that the earth provides us, so they should not be use those resources, we should take advantage of them, not waste them. It is very important to take care of the planet since future generations will depend on how we will leave it, we must fight to keep it in the best conditions, the bad thing is that no matter how much I can do I will be able to contribute with a grain of sand but this is a change that everyone we must do, we must all change. Now we can see in Monterrey a reality check on global warming, there is a drought, it doesn't rain, we don't have water, we are already beginning to realize how much water is needed and how much we used to waste it. The worst part is that for us to realize something serious had to happen like running out of water, and we cannot wait for something to happen to us to start changing, we will have to anticipate these possible scenarios so that they do not happen to us or to our children, nor to future generations.