The event I went to was a lecture by Fred Pearce about how the earth’s water supply is going dry and many of the earth’s rivers are drying up. There are many reasons for this that Mr. Pearce went into. One example is that while the green revolution helped in terms of the amount of land being used for agriculture, many of today’s mass agricultural activities such as the production of beef and cotton use up large amounts of water. Another reason is climate change and there is less rainfall coming down is many areas, but the largest reason is the huge amounts of water that we use in our production of every day materials.
According to Mr. Pearce, the countries in the world are going to have to change some of their ways in order to conserve water. This could mean cutting down the amount of exporting in countries like the US, where water is being used to produce products that are then being exported and not even being used in the US. While little things like this can help, in order for real progress to be made people must start looking at water as a resource that must be conserved. Some ways to do this is to fix leaks in the water storage system, come up with more advance ways to catch rainwater, and create more water efficient system of irrigation and farming.