Question

Use of water has been increasing more than ______ the rate of population increase in the last century.

• A. thrice
• B. twice
• C. half
• D. ten times

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

twice

Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under stress conditions.Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made phenomenon. There is enough freshwater on the planet for seven billion people but it is distributed unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed.