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Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occ
Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occ
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2025-04-05
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问题
Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world’s population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis.
But that doesn’t have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world—if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want.
Instead, for all used except the domestic demand of the poor, governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs.
Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways. For example, often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland.
No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use. Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local, regional, and national agencies that watch various aspects of water use, countries should set up central authorities to coordinate water policy. [br] What is the real cause of the potential water crisis?
选项
A、Only half of the world’s water can be used.
B、The world population is increasing faster and faster.
C、Half of the world’s water resources have been seriously polluted.
D、Humanity has not placed sufficient value on water resources.
答案
D
解析
推理题。解题点在第二段。文章提到“Water shortages do not have to trouble the world if we start valuing water more than we have in the past”,由此可以推出,如果人类重视水资源,就不会出现水资源缺乏的危机。所以正确答案是D选项。
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