Climate Change Example Water

It’s a natural resource for mostly everything that needs to survive or use for hygiene. Time passes and us humans have used water over a billion of years and as that time passes, the earth and climate changes. Let's time travel to the future. Humans now use water to wash things in these loud machines called washers. These washers use 15 to 20 gallons of water per day for one load of clothes, while back then, people used rivers to clean and bathe in. Food is also going under the category of natural resource because food is made by natural things like animals and plants. We also need food to survive with 3 meals each day, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. The food we eat contains the nutrients that our bodies need to replace worn-out cells, stay healthy and stay strong. We have been eating all types of food from animals and plants over 2 million years! Wow that’s a long time. But how is climate change affecting people's access to clean water and food production? What going to happen to our clean water and the food we eat?

Climate change is to blame for global warming if our clean water runs out. The water cycle is part of this. “A warmer climate causes more water to evaporate from both land and oceans...Declining water quality is another consequence of climate change.” Water temperature, for example, will generally rise in streams, lakes, and reservoirs as air temperature rises. This tends to lead to lower levels of dissolved oxygen in water.“When precipitation leads to increased runoff in certain regions, we can also expect more pollution to be washed into our waterways. ”Naturally, the pollution load in streams and rivers will tend to be carried to larger bodies of water downstream – lakes, estuaries, and the coastal ocean – where one of the more dramatic consequences of heavy runoff can be blooms of harmful algae and bacteria.”

Climate change will not only affect crops, it will also impact meat production, fisheries and other fundamental aspects of our food supply. Hotter weather will lead to faster evaporation, resulting in more droughts and water shortages which of course means if there's no water, there's no food. Also, another thing to keep in mind is parasites and diseases that live on livestock and thrive in warm, moist conditions. This could result in livestock farmers treating parasites and animal diseases by using more chemicals might then enter the food chain meaning that we would also eat chemicals from those animals that was affected. 

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