the ‘cure’ to end hunger”. All of those are used to promote exports and food production, it doesn’t increase the poor’s ability to buy food he says. What the government really should do is to balance out the economy, and let more people earn more money to buy more foods.Sandra Postel, on the other hand, has a different opinion than Danielle’s. She proposed that “without increasing water productivity in irrigation, major food-producing regions will not have enough water to sustain crop production”. A large portion of the world’s food comes from irrigated cropland. “The productivity of irrigation is in jeopardy from the over pumping of groundwater”, Sandra says. There’s an annual water deficit of some 160 billion cubic meters, the amount used to produce nearly 10 percent of the world’s grain. If we over pump groundwater, the wells will eventually dry up, and it will become too expensive to pump from greater depths. The problem for water shortage will only get worse as the population grows. “Already many countries are now suffering from not having enough water to meet domestic demands for food, creating a source of potential political instability”, Sandra says. Sandra also stated that governments aren’t really “helping” to solve this food shortage problem. “There is no treaty among all the parties that sets out how that river water should be shared. In the absence of water-sharing agreements, tensions are bound to rise”(Postel). Sandra’s way to solve this problem is the “Blue Revolution”. “Most of the farmers today irrigate the way their predecessors did hundreds of years ago”(Postel). We need to boost our water productivity by newer technologies and better management for water. The inefficient use of water by people will eventually lead to more severe problems in the upcoming...
