The Struggle for Freshwater: How Climate Change Worsens Scarcity

Freshwater is crucial to the modern human life. We need freshwater for our daily and domestic use – washing, cleaning, drinking – while also needing it to produce food and for industrial uses. However, the global climate crisis has altered the precipitation pattern in many place, exacerbating issues of water scarcity in areas which already lack water.

In many parts of the world with already limited water supply, their water scarcity problems are further enhanced by climate change via depleting their groundwater supplies and causing more evaporation in their surface water bodies.

As a result, crops can die as communities lack water for irrigation, insufficient electricity may be produced due to how not enough water are used for industrial purposes, and the basic human needs for water may also be unfulfilled due to the insufficiency of freshwater.

In conclusion, given how the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth are very interconnected, one major environmental issue can worsen another. It is thus important to concentrate efforts and mitigate climate change via appropriate methods.