Water and energy are vital resources yet are depleting in
our world because of the overuse of water.
The United Nations states that they need to be managed together properly
because they are interrelated. The
increase of hydraulic fracturing has put pressure on water sources and has led
to water contamination. This is bad for
water and the environment and thus how we get electricity needs to be
rethought.
The U.N blames this on financial subsidies that are keeping
the price of water artificially low. This is caused by governments who make
water cheap or free for energy producers.
But this does not give them an incentive to conserve.
1 comment:
This yet another example of how short sighted and shorter term "goals" of the government have created more problems than solutions for improving the environment. The fact that governments are prioritizing cheap or free water for energy producers while the only incentive is higher profit is pretty sad. If governments do not create regulations or incentives for energy producers there will be significant increases in irreversible environmental problems.
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