CA alone knows how quickly water can be wasted. We used up the natural LA basin water, dried up the owens valley within one generation, shrunk the Owens river greatly, almost dried up mono Lake, and are rapidly using the colorado river. However once LA did realise what they were doing was dangerous to the water supplies, that it not only changed whole eco systems for plants and animals of the surrounding areas, it was dancerious to the overall water supply of the earth, they drastically conserved water. They noticably slowed their intake of water.

It is easy to reduce water waste and conserve energy without reducing how much water a person drinks. Fixing leaky fixtures can reduce up to gallons of water leaked out of it a day. Changing appianced to water efficent, which is hard to see difference and is often better quality machine, can also save hundreds of gallons a month or even week depending on the household. Watering lawns at night, covering jacuzzis and pools. All easy stuff that is not hard to do, even lazy people can do it without knowing they are putting a little extra work into things to conserve.

People individually need to conserve water because that is often where the most wasted water goes. After we use it it can be refined into gray water to be used in other places.

There are many different processes, which can save and store fresh water like irrigation for example. However, my main focus will be on the many different desalination processes. Distillation, and reverse osmosis are all desalination process. To start of distillation is when water is purified through a heating and cooling process. I do not believe this process would work to solve water shortages. Since basically a company would have to set this up. I believe reverse osmosis is a more reasonable process o use. Since the water is pushed through membranes, which separate the water from the other particles. Let’s say for example that a person was to get a small machine that used reverse osmosis. This machine would be able to take rain water and then turn it into drinkable water. Even other types of water that are not purified can also be used.

I believe that water shortages can be solved by using different purification processes. The one that I believe is most effective is reverse osmosis.

For example people a day use way too much water in their homes running the bathroom or kitchen sinks, letting the water hose run for a few seconds as you go get something in the house, running the bathtub water and your just sitting in the tub, or even letting the sprinklers run on a constant timer. It seems that people aren’t thinking about it when they are using water, they just forget that we are trying to conserve as much as we can.

So with that being said, I don’t think that people are going to take heed to the signs, news reports, or city cars telling you how to manage your water, because that won’t work anymore. Unless the water company shuts off your water, but its going to take time for people to think about how much they are using and condition themselves to use water better, because to break a bad habit it takes someone to do the new habit 21 times to break the old one (from what I heard), and if people don’t take that step then things could get worse. I’m not saying that the solution is to turn off the cities waters, but in my opinion the solution is to let the people learn for themselves, and give them the chance to rid their bad habits.