rising sea levels.

As air pollution worsens, climate change is triggered, causing sea levels to rise. Within the last three decades, the rate at which the sea level is rising has raised to 0.14 inches, from a previous rate of 0.06 inches. This may not sound like a lot, however, at this rate, by the year 2100 it is predicted that the sea levels will have risen a minimum of 3 feet. This would mean that at least 10 major cities, including New York City and Boston will be underwater by 2100. If sea levels rise enough to drown cities, they will be high enough to destroy our fresh water sources.

For the city of Los Angeles alone, it requires fresh water from three different ground water basins. Due to pollution and overextraction, these water basins are being destroyed, along with similar ones all over the world. The storage for this capacity of fresh water would cost $3 billion. This is only 16% of the total water needed for the population of Los Angeles.

0.14 inches per year

5-9 inches by 2050 min. 3 feet by 2100

U.S. Cities expected to be underwater by 2100 under current conditions