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An Asian Development Bank said that India is in danger because of the water scarcity conditions. The annual average of water is reducing per capita and it will cause a water scarcity. They are in a dangerous position. Unfortunately, there are also some other things that causes the increase of the scarcity like more demand of water to factories or some changes of amount of water of rainfalls. I think this is a really important problem, especially for this times. Last year, it didn't rain very much in my city and we had some little problems about water because we didn't have any in our dam. For several weeks, we didn't have much water and I had never thought that would be a difficult thing. It is hard to take a shower, or to brush my teeth with less water. This article was interesting because water is like the most important thing in our life because without water, we can't do anything. I also related water scarcity to my city this summer and I hope that it will rain a lot this year.

By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter Published: 07:00 July 13, 2014 Abu Dhabi: Food waste adds pressure on the UAE's scarce water resources, according to a senior official of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The article talks about food waste in the UAE and how it affects the current issue of water scarcity. Since production of food needs water, so when it goes to waste the water used to produce goes to waste. In addition to wasting of water, all natural resources used to grow, process, package, transport, and to market in goes to waste. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation representitive stated that more public awareness is needed to inform the population of water scarcity. In addition to that he informed up to 30 percent of natural resources and energy used to produce food is wasted along with the lost or wasted food. That tells us that more water is even wasted, while other countries suffer from starvation and lack of water. This article interested me as this is new information so I agree that public awarness should be increased as this is a huge issue.

This article underlines how scarcity of one resource affects the availability of another. Many of you shared articles concerning about the current water scarcity. Here, you will se how this water scarcity has affected the cotton crops.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Tuesday overhauling the state's management of its groundwater supply, bringing it in line with other states that have long regulated their wells. This is really important because california has large agriculture based businesses (central valley). In fact, the oppositions to the legislature were people in the agriculture business. This potentially allows water companies and regulators to intervene if water use is excessive or improper. This is an article directly discussing scarcity of water and natural resources and how the government regulates these resources. This passing of this legislature could also have some opportunity cost along with it; less water=maybe more expensive food, less food, more chance of dying crops (?)

This article talks about high demands for water and dwindling supply. This is forcing government/companies to raise water prices so it would restrict usage of it. Like California where drought is causing high prices and low usage of water. Water has pretty neutral elasticity so government and businesses can make decisions capitalizing on its elasticity.

NEW DELHI: The Rural Development Ministry Tuesday ordered district administrations to ensure that water conservation work like construction of check dams and de-silting of traditional water bodies are taken up under the rural job act to mitigate drought-like situation.

This article discusses how water is being sold too cheaply, even when there is a drought. Here price mechanism should come in to regulate and allocate scarce resources. It says that people consuming the water have no incentive to stop wasting if the price is so low

Also, Water is quite inelastic since people will continue to use it (largely because we need it). The fact that it is so inelastic can actually be dangerous. this is because we continue to consume it whether or not the price increases.

In this article its talking about how differnt companies and governments are destroying our water sources and our fish supply. As people are ordering others to go build things in veries water sources around the world. which is slowly and at times quickly destroying them, which has led to a problem with our ability to gain resources from water sources. at that will only become even worse of a problem as time goes on.

This article covers the impending water crisis (a shortage) and is a good example of the tragedy of the commons.

The holy river of Ganga that flows through new Delhi, capital of India, supports the lives of people living in about 118 towns. Over time this river has become highly polluted; some factors to blame for this would be modernization and ignorance. During the summer of 2014 a new Prime Minister was elected who has set up a project to clean this water body. The opportunity cost in saving this water body is time and financial resources. Roughly, it is said that the government plans of completing this project over 18 years while using millions of INR. The government is giving up these valuable resources to achieve something that is of high importance.

This article considers the impact on the ocean that we are causing by having is as a public good with public access.

Venezuela is currently experiencing extreme scarcity levels in basic items and is also suffering from one of the world's highest inflation rates. Their economy isn't looking good.