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Before doing extensive research on the global water crisis, I found to my surprise a lot of people don’t have safe drinking water in many countries. I always knew Mexico had unsafe tap water, if you aren’t native to Mexico drinking tap water is a danger to your body. Native Mexicans are able to drink this tap water without being affected because their body built immunity to the bacteria in the water. Learning that Mexico is suffering a drought left me to wonder what would they do when there’s no water in a couple of years? how does the government plan to fix this? The government has a plan to create ” artificial rain ” to increase rainfall but this has effects on the biosphere and increases ocean acidification so is it really a solution? With that being said I believe that yes, the global water crisis is an environmental justice issue. I can argue this because low-income countries and people don’t have access to safe drinking water and it’s a human necessity. The government of these countries isn’t doing enough to ensure these people have water. We only heard about this issue in poor countries and neighborhoods, the rich never have to worry about unsafe water or having water period. Change is needed and, it starts with us. we are the change.

Before researching more about the water crisis in Mexico, I didn’t even know the government took action in doing things such as creating “artificial rain” I did’t know that was possible and I found that interesting. I also found it interesting that there are so many different water crisis around the world that aren’t being addressed and are worsening. With water being such an essential, I think these water crisis’ needs to be taken more seriously. I do believe the global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because the definition of environmental justice is the fair treatment of all people despite race, income, origin and the enforcement of environmental laws. I think These water crisis’ are being overlooked in certain minority groups and there needs to be actions taken that’ll prevent these countries from having to deal with such a problem such as not having clean or even enough water. There need to be laws put in place to protect and support those that have been dealing with water crisis for more than a certain amount of time, if any time at all.

The goal of this infographic was to expand our knowledge of water crises that are happening around the globe. It was interesting to find out that we only have access to 3% of earth’s water(out of 71%). We have the necessary resources to raise this percentage but this country refuses to do anything for the betterment of their people.

After researching the global crisis Kenya has faced my stance on global water crisis’ relationship with environmental justice has been reaffirmed. Water is an absolute necessity that is required to live. We as humans have the power to solve these water crises. I fully believe that the only reason why we don’t is that people don’t want to invest so much time effort and money into these things instead of their own societies. There are many instances of us in fact actually adding or creating these water crises for profit on numerous occasions. I have hope however and learning about how the people in Kenya work to overcome their situation lets me know there aren’t situations like this unfixable.

In some ways, the global water crisis and all of the work that has been done to stop it may be seen as environmental justice. There are still steps we need to take to figure out what caused the problem and figure out how the most time-consuming procedures can be used to make sure drinking water is safe and clean. I came to this conclusion because of the evidence that has been all over the places where I live and work. Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas, Indiana, and so on are some of the more well-known places.

The global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because it’s necessary to have clean drinkable water to live, as well as a human right.

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Reflection: I find it crazy that people have to pay 200 dollars for water that looks like a cloud. Also that the Water department pretty much said that the water was contaminated with bacteria that will give you nausea and headaches yet you don’t have to clean it

Cited Source Water.org. The Water Crisis. The Water Crisis. The Water Crisis, https://water.org/our-impact/water-crisis/.

Is the global water crisis an environmental justice issue? Why or why not?

Yes I do feel like the global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because you need water to live. You can go a couple days without food but you need water in order to survive. About 60 -75 % of water in the human body so water is one of the most important things to keep our bodies going. People not having clean stable water is super important to keep health up and also just stay clean and not get dehydrated. I think it’s very important and it’s an issue that needs to be resolved.

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Global water crises are an environmental justice issue because having access to clean and safe water is a basic human right. It’s essential to survival for all species on earth.

Throughout creating this infographic, something that stood out to me is that it was happening in California. I say this because a lot of people want to live/vacation in either California or Florida (which happens to have its own climate change problems with flooding). I wonder if this can actually be fixed and if California can ever gain more water.

The global water crisis is definitely an environmental justice issue because it’s all about the environment and the residents. Water is a very important factor in people’s lives and there are millions of people who do not have access to drinking clean water which is actually a big problem. This is a money issue and a worldwide issue, there is a difference between those who have money and those who have little, with the water issue. How can we make a change?

This is a very serious issue being that Sao Paulo supplies over 21.7 million people water, all for it to be shortening quicker and quicker as days go by! This situation needs to be quickly solved as we can’t have this damage the lives of these people. Just imagine how many of them that struggle already.

Clean water itself is a necessity for all life of earth such as plants and animals and human beings. The lack of actual drinkable water in heavily populated area’s shows how this environmental issue needs to be tackled. Through this info-graph we wanted to shed light on one of the more popular issues that recently touched the news.

Considering the information that my group and I discovered, we concluded that the water crisis at hand is quite intriguing. I was not surprised by the fact that California is currently experiencing a drought due to the vast increase in temperature. As I knew prior knowledge, the areas that are closer to the equator are susceptible to possessing high temperatures These high temperatures ultimately lead to droughts, which is essentially a notable lack of rainfall that leads to a low supply of water. A concept that stood out to me regarding the water crisis in California was that the state relies more on the snowpack in the mountains to store water, rather than the occurrences of rain. This made me wonder how snow is utilized more as an essential source of water rather than rain being the main source. In the aspect of the global water crisis being an environmental justice issue, I believe that it is. Due to how environmental justice is essentially a fair treatment of all people on Earth regarding the environment, the global water crisis falls into this concept. Since humans rely so much on the water to survive if this water is not accessible to all that would have a great correlation to environmental justice issues.

This may not seem as important to your life as other things but I ensure you that the water crisis is real and coming faster than you think. It really stood out to me because it’s so close to what we call home. If this issue is so close to us when will we begin to feel the effects? Its important that we act on the crisis before it’s too late

Some people might say that the water crisis is an environmental issue while others may disagree. I feel that the water crisis is an environmental justice issue because environmental justice is about the people and for the people. Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, etc. So no matter the situation it is supposed to benefit all people. If people in lower or higher income areas have water that has lead or some type of issue then it should be fixed because if not then we the people have to suffer. A lot stood out to me. It just shows the similarities and differences that many different areas face. I feel that each issue could have a variety of ways of being solved but has yet to be done. I felt that in all places funding is hard and that may be the hardest part. It’s like we want to help and we try hard to but our trying could be damaging this more. How can we make a change?

I’m wondering if we can just create rain clouds everywhere like once a week to keep a steady water cycle and prevent droughts. This crisis in an environmental justicwe issue because people in areas that are less cared for are more affected by droughts than people who can afford to live in a better area.

A global water crisis is definitely an environmental justice issue. In class, we defined environmental justice as addressing the ecological-related problems that could have a sufficient externality of other people, especially those in marginalized groups. Considering that water is both part of the Earth and a fundamental component for human survival and function, any problems that would arise with the water supply or distribution of water would clearly be an environmental justice issue.

The global water crisis is an environmental justice issue because environmental justice advocates protection for all people regardless of race, gender, or religion. Not having access to clean waters impacts people’s health as pollution, lead, and other toxins in water can pose many critical health conditions. What stood out to me is that many peoples are suffering from access to clean waters even though 71% of the earth’s surface is covered in water. I guess we don’t have enough resources to utilize the natural sources that we already have.

I do believe that the water crisis issue is an environmental justice issue because environmental justice is all about the people and their needs. Water is very important for people so if there is a lack of water that causes many issues for us. Something that stood out to me is how many places don’t have the resources to freshwater and there’s not a lot being done about it. Something else that stood out is that between America and countries there were quite a few similarities than I thought for both water crises.

reflection: something that stood out to me while learning about the global Water Crisis is the issue of not having clean water is happening in so many places and they aren’t getting help from the government to fix the problem. The people in the town are having to take time out of their busy work daws to collect water just so they and their kids have something to drink. in one of the sections or the website provided for us, they talked about how schools ended up having to take away from learning time to collect water so that the children not only have clean water at school but at home too. I think that even if the places that are dealing with this issue aren’t major cities they should still get some kind of help from the government.

A global water crisis is an environmental science issue. Any global water crisis would be bound to unfairly affect some people. We said environmental justice is making sure all people are involved in making environmental decisions and don’t experience unfair conditions.https://www.canva.com/design/DAE87frjY3U/Zz5sdNp72tK6XdS8JQkJUw/edit