Being “Water Wise” is one of Mankind’s challenges in balancing People Needs and Natural Resource Management

Let’s consider the World’s Lakes FIRST JUST KNOW -- WATER IS LIFE But a Number of World Lakes are Drying from Wikipedia Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan Lake Meredith in Texas Lake on -Afghan border Lake Albert in South Australia Salton Sea in California Buffalo Lake in Texas Lake Chad in Africa Great in Utah in Central Asia Lake Hindmarsh in Australia Tulare Lake in California E.V. Spence Reservoir in Texas Urmia Lake in Iran Lake Poopo in Bolivia Owens Lake in California Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona Lake Copais in Boeotia, Greece Walker Lake in Nevada Lake George in Australia Mono Lake in California Nainital in Utarakhand, India Fucine Lake in Italy De Hilmand Hamun in Poyang Lake in China in Iran Qinghai Lake in China Lake Faguibine in Mali White Bear Lake in Minnesota Lake Chapala in Mexico Asia’s Aral Sea is an example of poor Natural Resource Management, as its water is diverted for

Before After Satellite imagery from 1984 to 2014 reveals the diminishing surface area of Urmia Lake in Iran

1984 2014 River flow into the Great Salt Lake has dropped 39% since 1850, due to population growth and agriculture. Irrigation consumes 63 percent of overall water use from the rivers. The Original Shoreline The Receding Shoreline SOLUTIONS ARE REQUIRED

Improved agricultural practices such as these terraces in Iowa serve to preserve soil, reduce water needs and improve water quality. A water harvesting system collects rainwater from the Rock of Gibraltar then saved in tanks excavated inside the rock. Experts Name the Top 19 Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis • Educate to change consumption and lifestyles • Invent new water conservation technologies • Recycle wastewater • Improve irrigation and agricultural practices • Appropriately price water • Develop energy efficient desalination plants • Improve water catchment and harvesting • Look to community-based governance and partnerships • Develop and enact better policies and regulations • Holistically manage ecosystems • Improve distribution infrastructure • Shrink corporate water footprints • Build international frameworks and institutional cooperation • Address pollution • Public common resources / equitable access • R&D / Innovation • Water projects in developing countries / transfer of technology • Climate change mitigation • Population growth control http://www.circleofblue.org/ But solutions to change the impact - cost money