To practice interpretation from English into Japanese, I read a short speech draft on "Economic Growth and Environment". Reading it, I have realized how serious the water shortage problem is.
Now the world economy is rappidly expanding. In the last 50 years, it has expanded more than six times. As the economy grows, consumption of basic resources grows. Forests are shrinking, desertification is going on, the temperature is rising, species are disappearing, soils are eroding, water tables are falling, and so forth.
Among those issues, the water shortage problem has not attracted so much attention, especially in Japan, because we can get enough water for daily use. In China, the Yellow River, which used to be the cradle of Chinese civilization,now fails to reach the sea for more than 200 days a year. In America, the Colorado River hasn't reached the sea for several years. The water tables in every continent are rappidly falling. The water shortage affects agriculture very badly, and sooner or later, it will be impossible to run farms, which will lead to food shortage in the world.
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