Impacts of the Human Species and Factors of the Agricultural Revolution & Agrarian Empires6/16/2020 The UN Development Goal that my group chose was Clean Water & Sanitation, relating this to economic problems in China. This is related to poverty because in certain parts of China and the world people donʻt have enough money and are unable to afford food, water, necessities, or a home. Additionally, many of the people in China don't have access to clean water and some have to drink from rivers and bodies of water. These bodies of water arenʻt clean all the time and some are very polluted due to waste and bacteria. Not having access to clean water is an ongoing economic problem in china, but also throughout the world. In Hawaiʻi we have local aquifers and water companies and we have drinkable water. But, we also have a problem with the pollution of bodies of water and the ocean. This is because of people leaving waste on beaches and littering waste around the island. This waste goes into sewage that leads to the ocean and/or goes there by other causes and causes pollution in the ocean. Runoff from the mountains also causes great water pollution here as well. In China the water sanitation problem is a lot worse than it is here. Runoff from factories go into the water and so does human and natural waste everyday. The color of the water also changes constantly due to pollution, but China is making an effort to improve farming to help increase the condition of the water. Additionally, China only contains 7% of the world's fresh water. 73% of the watershedʻs that provide water to Chinaʻs cities have a medium to high pollution rate. Shemie, D., & Vigerstol, K. (n.d.). China has a water crisis - how can it be solved? Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/china-has-a-water-crisis-how-can-it-be-solved/
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