Thursday, May 30, 2013

Water shortage in the UAE


Water shortage in the UAE

Paragraph 1: introduction of water and explanation of problems:

 Water is the main source for the living of human beings; even animals depend on water to live. People use water for drinking and showers and for many uses in agriculture and industry. The shortage of water causes many problems for all beings and creatures on earth. The usage of water is increasing every year more and more and the amount of water is decreasing whether from rain or wells and also the rivers; the amount of water in rivers is running out. Many countries around the world suffer from the shortage of water and that may be because they use a lot of water in everyday life or because they don’t have any source of supplying water such as rivers or falling rain; sometimes it doesn’t rain all the year in some countries. If the problem still continues, many people will die before getting the fresh water they need to live. In many parts of the world people don’t find water to drink and others don’t find enough water to grow plants which may cause starvation for people and animals.

 

Paragraph 2: Solutions

 The problem of water shortage in the UAE is big but there are many solutions to overcome it. The most effective solution of the problem is to make people aware of the problem and its seriousness for people and all creatures in the country because any attempt to solve the problem without the awareness is useless. Another solution is to make meters at homes to count the amount of water used by people and the over usage should be charged a fine to control the usage of water and save it. A third solution is to use a system for using water in agriculture to avoid water waste and there is another solution related to agriculture which is to grow crops which preserve water and also to grow crops which need the salty water instead of using the fresh water which people use for drinking and cooking at home. Finally the increasing of desalination stations around the UAE may help the problem to be reduced by increasing the amount of water produced but the problem will still be a dilemma because the usage of water will be doubled in a few years as researchers indicated in conferences about the problem. 

 

 Paragraph 3: UAE, a case study

 Water shortage in the UAE has increased in the last thirty years as the Emiratis usage of water has increased as people use hundreds of gallons of water every day for washing, drinking and many uses as well. The location of the country in the desert is the main cause for the shortage of water as it has a small amount of underground water. It also has no more rain in winter. More over there are no rivers to supply the country with the needed water. All these reasons forced the UAE government to rely on the purification of the sea water which is called desalination;  it removes salt from the water of the sea to use it for the multi-uses of people and animals and for the agriculture as well, but the high usage of people for water at homes and farms makes the problem bigger and without an end.

 

 

 

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