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Due to pollution, poverty, and inadequate resource management, 2.1 billion people in urbanized nations lack access to clean drinking water. Agriculture and the creation of industrial electricity drain water supplies.

To put things in perspective, agriculture uses up to 75% of the water in an urban nation, depleting the water through contamination and contributing to a global water decrease of 70%. Water pollution already kills more people than war and other acts of violence combined due to diseases such as malaria and other water based illnesses every year.

People are also dying from lack of water too as we only have less than 1% of the Earth's freshwater accessible to us, human activity is actively threatening our own water resources. Fortunately, attempts to create technology to counteract contamination and slow the rate of water depletion have recently increased, but it is still a problem.

Written by: Tristan Spanopoulos and Electra Beli