Water crisis

Examples of Water crisis in the following topics:

• River Valley Civilizations

  • A hydraulic empire (also known as hydraulic despotism, or water monopoly empire) is a social or governmental structure which maintains power through exclusive control over water access.
  • Access to water is still crucial to modern civilizations; water scarcity affects more than 2.8 billion people globally.
  • Water stress is the term used to describe difficulty in finding fresh water or the depletion of available water sources.
  • Water shortage is the term used when water is less available due to climate change, pollution, or overuse.
  • Water crisis is the term used when there is not enough fresh, clean water to meet local demand.

• Energy and Environmental Reform

  • Carter's Energy Crisis responses included deregulation of American oil production, leading to an increase in American oil production.
  • The 1979 (or second) oil crisis in the United States occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
  • He had already installed solar hot water panels on the roof of the White House and a wood-burning stove in the living quarters.
  • Carter's speech argued the oil crisis was "the moral equivalent of war".
  • Discuss the effects of the 1979 Energy Crisis, and the resulting Environmental Reform Policy.

• The 1956 Suez Crisis

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Refugee Crisis

• Domestic Policies

  • During the first 100 days of his presidency, Carter wrote a letter to Congress proposing that several water projects be scrapped.
  • This sparked the 1973 Oil Crisis and forced oil prices to rise sharply, spurring price inflation throughout the economy and slowing growth.
  • Carter set oil and natural gas price controls, had solar hot water panels installed on the roof of the White House, had a wood stove installed in his living quarters, ordered the General Services Administration to turn off hot water in some federal facilities, and requested that all Christmas light decorations remain dark in 1979 and 1980.
  • When the energy crisis set in, Carter was planning on delivering his fifth major speech on energy; however, he felt that the American people were no longer listening.
  • On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among the American people.

• The Financial Crisis of the 1930s

• The Financial Crisis of 2008

• Loss of Biodiversity

  • Human activity is the driving force behind the current biodiversity crisis, which is causing great species loss in a short time period.
  • The biologists studying cichlids in the 1980s discovered hundreds of cichlid species representing a variety of specializations to particular habitat types and specific feeding strategies: eating plankton floating in the water, scraping and then eating algae from rocks, eating insect larvae from the bottom, and eating the eggs of other species of cichlid.
  • These factors included not only the Nile perch, but also the declining lake water quality due to agriculture and land clearing on the shores of Lake Victoria, and increased fishing pressure.

• The European Central Bank

  • That law required all German beer producers must make beer from only four ingredients: barley, hops, water, and yeast.
  • Both Turkey and Croatia want to join the EU, despite the 2012 European Debt Crisis.
  • Euro did well until the 2008 Financial Crisis struck the world's economy.
  • We discuss the crisis at the end of the chapter.
  • We discuss the Greek debt crisis in the next section.