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Water Scarcity

According to World Health Organization, 1 in 10 people in the
Philippines still do not have access to improved water resources.
More than 3 million Filipinos rely on unsustainable and hazardous
water sources due to interruptions, shortages, and water scarcity.

Philippines is Water scarcity in the 6-8 months in the Philippines
considered a form of rotational are largely part of dry seasons,
country where water interruptions are during these months, water
water supplies are common in the shortages, and thus
frequently scarce, Philippines due to low interruptions occur, pushing
bearing distributive levels of water people to rely on potentially
consequences. resources. unsafe water resources.

Causes:

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Effect
The effects of water scarcity in the Philippines are broad, varying from being thes
cause of social problems, to giving roots to severe health consequences. Social
problems includes how people, evidently in Manila, struggles for the possession of
provided supplementary water sources. Not everyone is able to be given
supplementary water sources, which hinders people’s ability to maintain good
proper hygiene, causing the proliferation of water scarcity-related health
concerns.

Government Responses/Proposals:

The United Nations assembly recognizes the right of every human to have access to
enough water for personal and domestic use, thus the provision of safe, acceptable,
affordable, and adequate water is a must. Through the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction, the provision of equitable access to water has been considered to
be one of the Nation’s objectives.

Possible Solutions:

The government can start a progressive solution through:
1.The improvement and further maintenance of already existing distribution lines for
water distribution, and of existing water sources from which people primarily relies.
2.The provision of new and innovative solutions, by utilizing concepts like water
recollection and groundwater extraction through the use deep wells and
groundwater pumps integrated with vacuum filters.

As social and environmental concerns arise, day by day, year by year, Filipinos continue to experience
water shortages and interruptions that become drivers and major factors to both social and health
problems and issues later down the line. The scarcity of usable and viable water resources continues
to be an inconvenience to Filipinos, even in the very capital of the country, Metro, Manila, and the
provinces throughout the country, caused by the lack of innovative integration to existing distribution
lines, the lack of means to extract water from potential resources that can be used to create newer,
advanced mechanisms, and the reoccurring El Nino that deprives the ecology of the country of its
supposed water-storing capacity.

Proposed Solutions:

Main Idea: Integration of Groundwater-extracting pumps. Groundwater Extraction and Filtration.

1.Aims

To provide significant improvement to water supplies.
To tap on utilized groundwater that may be accumulating in the surface and underground
aquifers due to runoff and infiltration
Aims to satisfy the growing needs for water resources by providing more water through
extraction using cost-effective means
To utilize the concept vacuum pumps to extract water from aquifers underground

2.How can it work?
Groundwater extraction pumps, as pumps in general, utilizes the concept of the pump theory

in Physics.
This method of extraction involves the use of basic forces of nature to move water upwards

rising main(tube) as the pump is acted upon, through the use of an impeller if automatic, or a
piston is manual, air is pushed out of the way, from an underground perspective, it gets sucked
out. The outward movement of air from the rising main creates a partial vacuum which due to
particle movement, will be filled with more fluids, which in this proposal, the groundwater. This
concept is similar to how water is sucked from a straw, the pressure produced by the outward
pressure from our mouth, is similar to the outward pressure that is produced by impellers or
pistons in groundwater pumps, in this way, groundwater from aquifers can be extracted.

To assure that the groundwater extracted will be viable for reservation then domestic use of
the people, the outer end of the rising main of the vacuum pumps will be integrated with
polypropylene cartridge filters, which will provide the seemingly 100% removal of coarse
particulates in the extracted waters, acting as the filter for the groundwater.

The pump can either be installed in the form of a water well for the communities that faces
major issues regarding water resources, or can be installed and connected to surface water
reservoirs like dams, which will then provide it with more water input to which will enable more
water output to the outlying communities.

Benefits:

Preventing contaminants from migrating away from the underground and
preventing possibly contaminated area from expanding or spreading to other
aquifers.
Less affected by water loss due to evaporation
Replenish the water needs of ecosystems and rivers that rely on groundwater.
Groundwater recharge has also been found to be cheaper than expanding surface
reservoirs by building dams
Does not provide breeding grounds for mosquitos , like stagnant water in lakes and
ponds.
Relatively protected from contamination by animal and human waste.

Call for Action: References:

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resourceful, but also innovative, stories/detail/water-shortage-in-the-philippines-
learn to utilize every possible threatens-sustainable-development-and-health
source of resources to provide the
basic needs of our fellow Filipinos. https://www.who.int/philippines/news/feature-
stories/detail/water-shortage-in-the-philippines-
threatens-sustainable-development-and-health

https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-
effects-solutions-of-water-scarcity.php

https://www.groundwater.org/get-
informed/basics/whatis.html

https://emis.vito.be/en/bat/tools-
overview/sheets/concept-ground-water-extraction

https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-
new-water-sources-bring-new-opportunities

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