Question

What is water scarcity and give few reasons?

Answer 1

Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion people lack access to clean Economic water scarcity is caused by a lack of investment in infrastructure or technology to draw water from rivers, aquifers or other water sources, or insufficient human capacity to satisfy the demand for water. One quarter of the world's population is affected by economic water scarcity..

Answer 2

Shortage of water as compared to its demand is called water scarcity.

It's reasons are
1 . Industrialisation
2. Urbanisation
3. Commercialisation of agriculture
4. Pollution of water
5. Waste of water.

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