Water Crisis
The Earth is being buffetted by a variety of environmental catastrophes. As humanity slumbers largely thinking things are fine it is difficult to identify which major eco-crisis will be the first to cause widespread death and destruction, probably the only way average Joe's are going to stop and think about where their water, air and food come from. I would say there is a 50/50 chance that the water crisis will be the first to truly bite (the other of course being climate change). Water is the lubricant of life and we continue to over use it and crap into it wherever found. The media is reporting on a new WWF report on the water crisis.
"Supporting large-scale industry and growing populations using water at high rates has come close to exhausting the water supplies of some First World cities and is a looming threat for many, if not most, others," the report warned...
The report proposed seven ways to tackle the problem: conserving catchments and wetlands; balancing conservation and consumption; changing attitudes to water; repairing ageing infrastructure; increase charges to farmers for water use; reduce water contamination; and more study of water systems.
