Physical Water Scarcity physical water scarcity where water

Physical Water Scarcity • “physical water scarcity, where water resource development is approaching or has exceeded unsustainable levels; it relates water availability to water demand implies that arid areas are not necessarily water scarce. ” IBO • Physical access to water is limited • Demand outstrips supply • For the most part, dry parts of the world or arid regions are most often associated with physical scarcity • Increasingly a man-made condition • The Colorado river basin in the United States

Economic Water Scarcity • “economic water scarcity, where water is available locally but not accessible for human, institutional or financial capital reasons “ IBO • a lack of compassion and good governance that allows the condition to persist. • Not enough money to utilize the source of water. • unequal distribution of resources for many reasons, including political and ethnic conflict. • Much of sub-Saharan Africa suffers under the effects of this type of water scarcity. • Without question, economic water scarcity is an issue that can be addressed quickly and effectively. • can be as simple as building small dams to catch rain water, or rain collection systems to collect rain from rooftops.

• 1 in ten people don’t have access to safe water • 1 in three people don’t have access to a toilet

Women and Children spend 125 million hours each day collecting water

A child dies from a water related disease every 90 seconds