Over the last fifty years the human population has nearly tripled while industrial pollution, unsustainable agriculture, and poor civic planning have decreased the water supply, in some areas, by as much as 90 per cent.
Globally, over two billion people lack access to clean water, and an additional one billion do not even have enough to meet their daily needs.
Beyond this, water issues associated with third world countries are making their way to North American soil.
Issues that span to include contaminated groundwater, as well as bottling plants extracting massively unsustainable amounts of water from the ground.
This water is then sold to people at hundreds of times what would be paid to drink the same water from a tap.
It is not surprising to the public that our water supply is in grave danger, but what is surprising is the way science may have to protect, and even improve it.
In the last five years drought researchers in poor countries have been finding an overabundance of ways to combat, and even reverse, the effects of our mismanagement of water.
Primary, and most immediately beneficial, of these are irrigation methods that have become widely popular in European countries and yet they still go largely ignored in Canada. 
According to theisraelproject.org, while Canadians use sprayers, which evaporate and waste the majority of water used, countries like Israel, which are already aware of the importance of water, have developed methods like drop irrigation, which is a type of irrigation that reduces water usage by as much as 80 per cent.
Modern irrigation and farming methods such as this, and others, developed in regions with a low natural yield, carry the potential to turn normally productive land into lush economically efficient farming paradises.
In the end, it would cost less per acre to work, and produce, multiple times more.
It is clear with the pressing issues society face, such as water and food shortages, that the adaptation of technology to the agricultural industry stands as not only the way to save the world but also a way to increase the dollars in the food growers pockets at the same time.
In the next 50 years, it is predicted that the world’s population is going to grow to an astonishing nine billion people.
It is between now and then that nations have to rewrite their books on agriculture to be both high yielding and sustainable, or they will end up paying the price. For the sake of us all I hope they do
For the sake of everyone, here’s to hoping they do.