Scarcity of water

If you could count..........
Dear Leechard,

Scarcity of water, food and energy crisis, the soil and air pollution, population crisis ,and global warming, are the major threats for us human.

I have read an guardian article that British is now facing it.

The daily consumption of every British citizen is found to be as much as 4,645 litres, if other factors, the amount of water required in planting the vegetables and fruits, the potatoes, the apples, are included in this calculation.

It is astonishing to hear that as we have never thought of the volume of water being used by a man in one day, as in the previous study, people has neglected that the planting water for vegetables and fruits, which is an important factor affecting human water consumption.

I wish that people in Britain and elsewhere on earth, could understand the importance of this news. It could be better if the green organization, the Environmental department, and farmers can do this kind of study in Hong kong.

This is very important mission, as hong kong also faces this kind of water shortage problems in the recent years but people do not realize how this affects their life.

william


Here is the article:


Revealed: the massive scale of UK's water consumption
Each Briton uses 4,645 litres a day when hidden factors are included
Felicity Lawrence
The Guardian,
Wednesday August 20 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/20/water.food1/print,