Causes and Solutions

Lack of Clean Drinking Water

Causes:

•  Inadequate sanitation
• Lack of funding
• No nearby sources of water
• Pollution
• Waterborne diseases

Solutions:

• Set aside a third of the money used to buy bottled water to help fund for better water sanitation
• Develop irrigation techniques in which water does not evaporate as much
• Promote the drinking of tap water
• Reduce consumption of meats such as hamburgers because it takes 2900 gallons of water to make a quarter pound burger.
• Donate more water filtration devices or water purifying tablets.

Overpopulation

Causes:

• Advances in technology
• Better medicine
• Tools that make live more easier and take away challenges in life
• Access to food (i.e. Supermarkets)
• Increase in birthrate and decrease in death rate
• Migrating to cities
• Lack of education
• Learning about family planning

Solutions:

• Encourage the populace to disperse throughout the world and not just in cities
• Encourage the use of contraception
• Put a limit on the number of children a family may have
• Regulate the media so that certain images do not influence young adults