Water - the basis of the functioning of all ecosystems on the planet.Many countries have an acute shortage of clean fresh water today.According to experts of the United Nations, for 1/6 of the population access to drinking water is limited, and for the third limited access even to process water used in the home - the water, which can not be considered potable.
What caused the problem of fresh water?
First - population growth.Every year the number of people in the world increased by about 85 million., Which, respectively, increases and consumption of water.
In exponentially growing pollution, and various kinds of garbage, including - sewage.Already in this century, the world needs significantly exceed the reserves of fresh water.
Global warming causes the glaciers to melt more rapidly, keeping two-thirds of all fresh water reserves.In the Alps, for example, glaciers are losing 1% per year.It turns out that the loss of every 10 years - 10% every 20 years - 20%.This means that by the end of this century already on the glaciers may be nothing left.The same applies to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.Moreover, half the accelerated melting of glaciers in Alaska.
Plus, the accelerated melting of ice in the Arctic and that will inevitably lead to rising sea levels.This means that in the next 20-30 years, the water may be London, Berlin, Paris, New York, St. Petersburg, and other cities.
As previously classified Pentagon claims analysts, climate change in the near future will cause major flooding, lead to a global catastrophe.About the consequences of not hard to guess: to begin a serious military conflict.Drinking water will become a strategic object № 1. Its reserves are reduced so much that most governments will be forced to protect their resources, resorting to arms and mass destruction.War for the possession of sources of fresh water may begin around the world.The current situation the authors of the report was equal to what is happening around 8,000 years ago, crop failures, famine, epidemics, mass migration, the fierce war.
fresh water in Russia is one third of the world's supply.It turns out that Russia automatically becomes the main target for attacks, potential lure for most countries.
That only is Lake Baikal!This is - pure fresh water, the amount of which is equal to the volume of the five Great Lakes located in North America and makes 23,000 cubic meters.km!This is 20% of the total volume of fresh water of the planet.Baykal has no analogues.
Actually, fresh water has become a strategic commodity now.We are not surprised plastic bottle with plain water on the shelves, although 20 years ago on the territory of the CIS (former Soviet Union) it was a rarity.Each year, it sold more than 100 billion. Liter of water, profit from sale - fantastic: a trillion dollars per year (and this is about).That's about half the income of oil companies.Everything goes to the fact that the business is built on pure water (without the quotation marks, in the literal sense), will be the most profitable.It may be that clean fresh water will become a deficit, even for our children ...
