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1.2 Economic Water Scarcity

Economic water scarcity is achieved when an insufficient water supply
is available to meet demands due to lack of proper infrastructure,
investment, and technology to make water readily available. In most
cases, economic water scarcity exists in the developing world, where
infrastructural developments in water are way behind the needs of the
same. In sub-Saharan Africa, a general case is characterized by the wide-
spread lack of available safe water sources.

1.3 Water Quality Matters

A counterpart of the water scenario is the water quality question.
Naturally, the industrial left-overs, farm discharges, and pesticide
and fertilizer remainders that will not be dumped in the environment
will certainly, ultimately, be channeled into water systems. Waters thus
sourced will most likely be unhealthy. Waterborne pathogenic
microorganisms can cause health conditions serious enough, like cholera and dysentery.

02 Drivers to the Water Crisis

Actually the remedies of the crisis shall have to target various interrelated factors, each one of them
combining to exogenously shape the problem of the global water crisis.

2.1 Population Growth

It is to be noted that the
projection of almost 9.7
billion people in the world
by 2050 poses immense
stress on water
resources that are
already overtaxed.
With the increasing
populations, the
demands increase
equally for drinking
purposes and as well
for agriculture and
industrial purposes.
This increase in the
demand usually outperforms the available
supply andover-extracts the water resources.
Climate change disrupts the hydrologic cycle
hence destabilizing the patterns of precipitation,
exposing the world at large to the frequency of
extreme weather events. Hence makes very
unpredictable the availability of freshwater.
Droughts, floods, and shifts in the weather all
causatively lead to shortages and surpluses, hence further
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