Why, then, would any human being not have enough water to drink?
Yet it is the case that water is in some places scarce - even to the point at which lives are lost.
The problem is not the amount of water on the planet - there’s more than enough of that. The problem is politics.
While most of the human race has plenty of fresh clean water, people are thirsting and even dying in specific places: (1) nations with socialist or communist governments, (2) Islamic republics, and (3) nations with notoriously corrupt governments.
It’s worth noting that there’s a difference between “Islamic republics” on the one hand, and “Muslim majority” or “majority Muslim” nations on the other.
In any case, water shortages are unnecessary, as author David Wallace-Wells writes:
Today, the crisis is political — which is to say, not inevitable or necessary or beyond our capacity to fix — and, therefore, functionally elective. That is one reason it is nevertheless harrowing as a climate parable: an abundant resource made scarce through governmental neglect and indifference, bad infrastructure and contamination, careless urbanization and development. There is no need for a water crisis, in other words, but we have one anyway, and aren’t doing much to address it. Some cities lose more water to leaks than they deliver to homes: even in the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of 16 percent of freshwater; in Brazil, the estimate is 40 percent.
A political problem demands a political solution - not an engineering or climatological one.
An infinite amount of pipelines and wells will not solve the world’s water problem; neither will gerrymandering human behavior to impact the climate.
Only when a nation has a government which has at least a modicum of respect for human life - only then will the water problem be solved.
