World Water Shortages by 2025

More than 25,000 conservationists are set to meet in Istanbul this month to discuss the world's growing water shortage issues. According to some analysts, ²/₃ of the world will face major water shortages by 2025.

However, many common sense people - myself included - note that most of these people who will face this shortage live in areas where water is not abundant... and at least 70% of the Earth is made of water. Droughts, climate issues, and so forth aside, if you live in a desert, then water shortages are simply something with which you should be left to deal on your own.

I'm not obtuse; as I sit here, unable to afford to move to a better place, I understand that not all of these people have much of a choice. However, instead of wondering what we can do to better provide them with even more resources where they are, why aren't we determining a way to move them somewhere more palatable?

And if religious/traditional/cultural morés and standards are what is keeping them from doing so, then leave them to their own devices. Sorry to say, but if they die-out due to stubbornness, then that's Natural Selection doing its Thing.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009