Hydrophobia

At first, when I first heard of the 'global water crisis', I wasn't shocked about it because if our population continued to grow, a global water crisis would surely happen. My first reaction was that of ignorance because I reckon that the water crisis would only occur at the worst, 2-5 centuries from my life time. Far from my time and besides, other more pressing environmental issues were at hand.

I was wrong. From the very start of my research about it, very alarming figures showed up. From the 6.7 Billion people in the world right now, already 1.1 Billion have 0 access to water while 2.6 Billion don't have access to sanitary water. Not so alarming? Well, it gets worse, from 16.4%, it will become 56.4% of the global population that will have totally no access to water by 2025, scientists say. So, from less than 1/5 of the global population, it rises to more than 1/2 in less than 20 years. So if we extend this trend, we can see that in 40 years time from now, more than 90% of the global population will have no water. Many might say that this prediction is somewhat flawed, I agree because many scientist say that it will be sooner, if we add the effects of pollution, climate change and global warming.

9 out every 10 people will have no water in fifty years tops, while 1-2 out that 10 already don't have water. People will have no water, so what? As it turns out humans can only survive without water for 1-2 weeks depending on the weather conditions and his physical activities. On the first 12 hours without water, a human will lose more than 50% of his physical strength. After a few days of that, he will first become regularly dizzy then he will start hallucinating and the person losses even his emotional and mental capacities. On the person's last days, seizures will occur frequently and his last moments, his internal organs will stop suddenly and then he's dead.

This has happened, is happening or will happen to 1-2 people for every ten people in the world. Chances are, you, the person reading this, is one of the 8-9 people who have water. But think about it, you may have water now but how will your chances fair when it becomes 5 out of every 10 or even 9 out of every 10 people and even if you're that lucky, how about your mom, your dad, your siblings, your friends, your loved ones. Will you or me be that lucky? Will our loved ones be that lucky?