Response to: Rethinking Water

ARTICLE: Rethinking Water
It is clear that freshwater is becoming a subject of conversation. It is not only Sandra
Postel, who published Water: Adapting to a New Normal, catching on to the issue, but even journalists from Texas. Our population is growing too rapidly to be supported by natural resources. In the article Rethinking Water, Farzad Mashhood includes a quote from Michael Webber(a university of Texas Professor) "A hundred years from now, your grandkids would ask you, `You sprayed what on your lawn?" This quote really caught my attention because of the realism behind it. By 2025 it is estimated that half of the world's population will not have access to freshwater. It is scary to imagine this especially since my children will not even be old enough to even have children by then. To most people right now it is unthinkable to value water as a valuable resource. It is becoming obvious that we need to begin to work on this problem and find a resolution to our future issues. The worlds population is only going to be greater, and so are our problems. I don't believe that we should conserve by not drinking water, but by taking on the biggest consumer of water and uncover new technologies to reduce required water for agriculture and manufacturing.