The most impressive sentence in Brave Blue world was that people were responsible for their own water by pumping water from wells, though sanitation issues were common at that time. After government intervention and technological improvement, water treatment facilities were built, and sanitation issues were mostly solved. However, as water becomes easily accessible to people, no one is appreciating it. People living in developed nations cannot imagine that some people on Earth still lack regular access to water. I believe that the issue of water scarcity and water saving requires systematic changes from political and institutional levels. I hope one day the government can recognize the importance of saving natural resources and investing more money in recycling facilities. Additionally, developed nations should take responsibility as leaders when acting to save water resources as we already have a steady source of water for daily consumption, while developing nations are still struggling to get clean water.
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I felt the same way that we really have a large discrepancy in accessing water resources, in some places people never have to worry about access to safe drinking water but in other places people even do not have access to water, let alone clean water. I totally agree with your idea that developed nations should devote more to solving the water crisis and providing international help to developing countries.
Maybe the developed nations can play not only the passive role as a leader to save water, but actively help with the know how and resources for clean water treatment plants?
The government is fully aware of the importance of these things, they know more about these things than anyone else, and they have the data and the technology and the money, but water is not the only thing in the world that is in crisis, if the government is given a sum of money, they might think about fixing the infrastructure first, investing in real estate, building hospitals and schools, protecting water might be a few options down the list.
I agree that people are not so appreciating the water because our daily water is so accessible. Nobody hopes to go back to their lives without the tap, however, the more terrible thing is there is no clean drinking water used, so water saving is everyone's responsibility.
Thanks for sharing Shirley! I can imagine that recycling water on a large scale could massively reduce the amount of water consumption and wastewater released into natural watersheds... something that should continue to be researched/developed!