1) MLA CITATION
For my news report, I chose an article from the BBC website about “UK water use ‘worsening global crisis ’“I chose this topic because this article is greatly impressive for me and made me interested . Here is the article’s MLA citation:
UK water use ‘worsening global crisis ’/ BBC NEWS /Monday 19 April 2010/ Black Richard/
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8628832.stm＞

2) ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported by developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says.
The report, focusing on the UK, says two-thirds of the water used to make UK imports is used outside its borders. The Engineering the Future alliance of professional engineering bodies says this is unsustainable, given population growth and climate change. It says countries such as the UK must help poorer nations curb water use.
"We must take account of how our water footprint is impacting on the rest of the world," said Professor Roger Falconer, director of the Hydro-Environmental Research Centre at Cardiff University and a member of the report's steering committee.

"If we are to prevent the 'perfect storm', urgent action is necessary." The term perfect storm was used last year by the UK government's chief scientist, Professor John Beddington, to describe future shortages of energy, food and water. Forecasts suggest that when the world's population soars beyond 8bn in 20 years time, the global demand for food and energy will jump by 50%, with the need for fresh water rising by 30%. But developing countries are already using significant proportions of their water to grow food and produce goods for consumption in the West, the report says. "The burgeoning demand from developed countries is putting severe pressure on areas that are already short of water," said Professor Peter Guthrie, head of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, who chaired the steering group.

"If the water crisis becomes critical, it will pose a serious threat to the UK's future development because of the impact it would have on our access to vital resources."
Key to the report is the concept of "embedded water" - the water used to grow food and make things. Embedded in a pint of beer, for example, is about 130 pints (74 litres) of water - the total amount needed to grow the ingredients and run all the processes that make the pint of beer. A cup of coffee embeds about 140 litres (246 pints) of water, a cotton T-shirt about 2,000 litres, and a kilogram of steak 15,000 litres.

3) SUMMARY
Developing countries face the shortage of drinking water. Nowadays, many people just believe mainly fact of water problem are abnormal weather such as drought and overpopulation. However, growing imported products in the developing countries also cases the shortage of drinking water. For example, in Brazil, cultivating coffee beans requires the large amount of water. According to the date of UNESC, if we want to drink a cup of coffee, we need about 150 liters of water. It other words, growing 1 kilo gram of coffee beans takes about 21,000 liters of water. So, now, Brazil and other developing countries suffer from producing imported goods. But, unfortunately, coffee beans are one of the representative products for Brazil and it supports the finance of the nation, so cutting back on producing coffee beans can be caused financial problem. These water problems will be remained to the same for a while.

4) VOCABULARY
1) WORD : abnormal weather(異常気象) phrase
2) WORD : drought(干ばつ) noun
3) WORD : overpopulation(人口過剰) noun
4) WORD : imported products(輸入品) phrase
5) WORD : cultivate(栽培する) verb
6) WORD : cut back on(削減す) idiom

5) Questions
1, what should we do for the shortage of drinking water in the developing counties?
2, what problems will overpopulation cause in the future?3, when do you often feel the abnormal weather in your daily life?