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Scientists predict that at this rate of water pollution, usage, and increase in need for drinking water, the Earth's supply of fresh water will run out sometime in the next 200 years. Unless we can do anything about it.

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"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein

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Another problem that can impact the environment is excess ground-water pumping. In some areas, this is leading to desertification and massive sinkholes, which can kill/injury many people around that area and/or destroy their houses.

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Taking too much water from the environment can make it unstable. This means that if we take water faster than it can replace itself, the environment around it, including trees, plants, soil,etc., will die and/or become a wasteland.

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Although the Earth is made up of about 71% water, only 3.5% is freshwater, and 69% of that freshwater is locked up in glaciers/ice caps (which can't be used because no one knows which country gets how much water, which leads to wars,etc., etc.). And that water supply needs to fit more than 7 billion humans

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Of, course, pollution, too, as if water scarcity wasn't enough. There are two major causes for the pollution of water: Emissions from car exhausts and buildings, and industrial contamination. Industries around the world have some hand in contaminating the local supply, whether the directly release chemicals into the water, or they pollute the air around it, impacting the water as well.

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Some people who are "all business" look for many ways to make money... sometimes without considering the consequences. These people sell water and make a profit off of it, but are wasting and contaminating the water at the same time.

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"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?" -Captain Jack Sparrow

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For example, instead of using gasoline-fueled vehicles, we could convert to more eco-friendly vehicles, such as ones that run on ethanol and have low emission rates, or even better, none. Not only will this stop the further pollution of water, but also the air around us. But a possible problem with stopping pollution is an alternate method for factories/industries to keep running without polluting the environment. I think that to stop this kind of pollution, we will need to close/relocate industries to avoid direct water pollution.

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To get the already-polluted water to a more fit-for-drinking stage, we can use the Raman effect, which states that after a beam of light passes through a medium, a little bit of it's wavelength changes. Using this as a base, it can be possible to create a process that identifies and eliminates harmful molecules found in the water using light beams.

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We have a huge water source that is sitting right in front of us; the oceans. Although some oceans are in similar states to that of the Pacific and the Garbage Patch, if they were to be cleaned up, they could pose as a huge water supply, with every single person on the face of the planet having more than enough water to fit their whole family. My idea is that if salt water is kept outside in heat long enough, it will evaporate and leave the salt behind. An eco-friendly "catcher" could be used to trap the water vapor and cool it back down to a liquid. This process would be cost-efficient and mostly harmless to the environment.

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Conserving water can be as simple as turning the tap off when brushing your teeth to not using it on products such as perfumes that are water-based. By doing so, we can prolong the rapidly decreasing supply of water. If 6,000,000,000 (6 billion) out of 7 billion people had the average tap, and each second about 1000 drops came out of each tap, we could save 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) drops of water per second, and there are about 10,000 drops of water in one water bottle, so 6 trillion would make 600,000,000 (6 hundred million) water bottles.