The topic of my natural resource studies through the lens of the various types of periodicals covers the most essential and frequently endangered water resources.
The first academic resource analyses global hydrological cycles are rather up- to-date despite the fact that it was issued in 2006. The point of the author is based upon the premise of water being a naturally rechargeable circulating resource, which is therefore posed under the hazardous influence of non-efficient water resources assessments. The problem with renewable freshwater resources remains fierce for more than two billion residents of the poorly supplied areas. The author assumes and studies the impact of the climate change on quickening renewable freshwater cycles. This in its turn would spare effort of a considerable number of people striving for the resource. Possible side effects of changes in seasonal patterns and increased propensity to natural disasters are taken into account in the theoretical layout (Taikan, 2006).
The second article was published in 2010 in the Economist. The argument of the given article revolves around the globally rising demand for water caused by the disturbances with the flow of the world’s greatest rivers and underground resources. The author mentioned possible solutions for the humanity to spare the commodity. One solution proposes growing drought-resistant or higher-yielding crops, and in this way to make farming less water dependent. Another remedy the author emphasizes in economic means, which is to apply price mechanism to regulate the supply controversy. Another means requires the development of technology of the ocean water desalination. The information presented was meant to be tangible for the wide audience, what reflects in the low usage of special scientific terminology, general and somewhat biased viewpoints (The world's most valuable stuff, 2010).
The third media of information was published by the European Environment Agency which is the official body of the EU, responsible for managing and enforcing the Organization’s policies tackling environmental issues. The report shows some positive tendencies. The following trend is the result of the long-term water saving and water efficiency measures and policies encouraged both on the EU and on the state levels. This is the report of multiple governments, comprising all the EU-member states. Nevertheless, this positive movement, the situation remains complicated for the fifth of the EU citizens that face severe freshwater conditions. The data indicates 12 % diminishing water abstraction. The given report was published on the webpage, with numerous tables and indices showing to presumably general public with little or no special knowledge of the subject the dynamics of the freshwater management (Use of freshwater resources, 2015).
The last resource comes of the most widely proclaimed advocacy media, the Greenpeace. The article on the freshwater crisis which drew my attention touches upon the state of freshwater resources in the Philippines, where a liter of pure water costs two or three times of the cost of the liter of gasoline (The problem: The State of Freshwater Sources in the Philippines, 2010).
The described freshwater catastrophe was caused by the industrial and agricultural wastewater leaks and other minor reasons. The source of this kind presents special interest group’s interpretation of the highly reputed issue. The attempt to influence public policy and to transform people’s perception of the topic is ventured through the wide-spread usage of figures which are meant to shock, descriptions of the particular individual’s miseries so as to enable emotional attitude to the subject (The problem: The State of Freshwater Sources in the Philippines, 2010).
Reference
Use of freshwater resources. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/use-of-freshwater-resources/use-of freshwater-resources-assessment-2
Taikan, O. (2006). Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources. Science.
The world's most valuable stuff. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/16163366
The problem: The State of Freshwater Sources in the Philippines. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/ph/What-we-do/Toxics/Water-Patrol/The-problem/
