While I agree that water is an increasingly scarce resource, I find the argument that "people will die of thirst" very misinforming of the situation. The thing

While I agree that water is an increasingly scarce resource, I find the argument that "people will die of thirst" very misinforming of the situation. The thing is that we may call it drinking water, but it's used for all purposes like washing, sanitation etc. An average person's daily water consumption is 150-300 litre in various countries, but she uses probably only 3-4 litre for drinking. The problem is scarcity of water to fulfill our wasteful living standard, where we flush drinking water by the liters everyone we go to the toilet. A different problem is the distribution of water, where the poor haven't been able to get reliable access to this water. This is why people die of thirst.