Many countries are facing increasing problems of not having enough drinking water. Choose two possible technological solutions to this problem and evaluate how they would apply to one country or region of your choice.

1- Meeting China’s Water Shortage Crisis: Current Practices and Challenges HEFA CHENG* Tongji University, Shanghai YUANAN HU Stanford University JIANFU ZHAO Tongji University, Shanghai

2- Water transfer as a solution to water shortage: A fix that can Backfire Alireza Gohari a,d,? , Saeid Eslamian a , Ali Mirchi b

3- Water shortage in Jordan — Sustainable solutions Nidal Hadadin a, ?, Maher Qaqish b,1 , Emad Akawwi c , Ahmed Bdour a,1

4- Problems of rural drinking water supply management in Central Kyrgyzstan: a case study from Kara-Suu village, Naryn Oblast Karl Tilman Rost • Gesine Ratfelder • Oktiabr Topbaev

5- Hybrid desalting systems for avoiding water shortage in Spain Javier Uche*, Luis Serra, Antonio Valero

6- Drought Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Agriculture and Rural Livelihood in the Maharashtra State of India Parmeshwar D. Udmale1,*, Yutaka Ichikawa1 , Anthony S. Kiem2 and Sudhindra N. Panda3

7- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/03/climate-change-water-shortage-middle-east-asia-africa-world-bank
8- http://ewn.co.za/2016/05/09/South-Africans-urged-to-adhere-to-water-shortage-warnings

9- http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/