Question

how does population growth affect the water supply​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Population growth particularly will limit the amount of water available per person, because an increase in per capita water consumption driven by development will intensify water demand, straining the local water supply [17].

Answer 2

Population growth and water supply

Population growth means the increase in population in terms of people . Population growth has many effects on the environment and the basic resources . Most adversely affected resource is water .

Population growth affects the water supply in the following ways :

• More amount of people but the water on Earth is limited . Even do alot of water is found everywhere only 3% of it is consumable and even in that most of them are found frozen in glacier forms .

• Water is necessary for everyday basic works . Water as used in industries as well . When there is a huge amount of Need For water ; it is not treated properly and contaminated water is left for consuming . This may cause many diseases .

• The more the population more agriculture must be practice in order to provide food for such huge number of people . For agriculture 70% of water is required just for irrigation and over a large plot of area water shortage can be seen .

• More the people more wastage of water would be seen .

• Increase a number of population more factories and industries are built up which also need water .

Thus it is necessary to use water wisely and not let the population increase .