When will the human race run out of fresh usable water?...I'm scared, is anything being done to combat this problem?

Question

The Economist publication released an article yesterday saying society will run out of fresh usable/drinking water by 2025. Not even 10 years! If we do make it past that then we will hit a crisis by 2040. People will die of dehydration, crops will die out and then we starve. Jobs will be destroyed. Society will collapse. Trump is getting rid of all the regulations that stopped companies from destroying us, and making more coal mining jobs. I'm sorry. It fact is that industry has been on decline for years. And it causes health problems and pollution. We can't filter the debris from water, because where do we dump the debris?

Are we doomed? Look at China, Acrican nations, all have lost water and collapsed.

Answer 1

For some places its coming sooner rather than later.

Answer 2

They also say we're running-out of oil, and natural gas, & Mt. 'DEW ....

Answer 3

For some places its coming sooner rather than later.

Answer 4

Yes. freshwater can be separated from saltwater. Infact there's a operation in place now. Their building a facility in California to separate freshwater from saltwater. Mike

Answer 5

For some places its coming sooner rather than later.

Answer 6

This is an age-old problem. Specific places have limited water resources. The problem is not one of "running out" of water, it is a case of using more than the area is provided by nature. Too many people, too many uses, inefficient use, poor resource management.



Historically, and pre-historically, societies that exceed the water supply tend to collapse and move away.



There is no lack of water where I live. It is a local issue, not a global one. It only becomes global when the people who have exhausted the local resource decide to go and take it from somewhere else, or decide to move somewhere else and make the people already there move out.

Answer 7

Never going to run out of water as long as we have the oceans.

The Sun Heats the Ocean Water, forming Clouds. Clounds move over land and RAIN (fresh waer).

Rain Water flows into Lakes and into your Pipes to your home.

You drink the water and it passes through and you pee. The water then goes to the sewage tretment facility where the sun heats it up and it goes into the air.

Water never gets used up. Constantly being recycled.

Answer 8

Funny how that all works : Here we are millions of years of human development later and we're to living the rule of " He who controls the waterhole controls the planet "

One of the reasons that your POV is valid is bc the rarest compound in the universe ; potable water , is also the cheapest and as such doesn't create an economic incentive to conserve it

Water is a bargain. The average price of water in the United States is about $1.50 for 1,000 gallons.

A gallon of fresh water weighs 8.34 lbs

8,340 lbs of tap water costs $ 1.50 or $0.018 per lb

Answer 9

We'll desalinate ocean water before that happens.



The reality is that the architecture that keeps us all alive and well is constantly evolving. Our population has gone up almost 5x since 1900 and there have been many changes along the way that have allowed that to take place.



Mostly engineers are responsible for this.

Answer 10

Are you trying to give yourself a stroke? I could tell you how to survive a lack of water, but you'd probably freak out.

Answer 11

For some places its coming sooner rather than later.