It affects so many people because we need water to survive we can’t survive without it we need it to drink, to wash with, to clean other things with water is not an want it is an need
When waters run dry, people can't get enough to drink, wash, or feed crops, and economic decline may occur. In addition, inadequate sanitation—a problem for 2.4 billion people—can lead to deadly diarrheal diseases, including cholera and typhoid fever, and other water-borne illnesses.
Neither, because the shoes could be made of velvet, in that case, then it is neither or if the shoes are not really made of velvet, it is a metaphor. it is definitely not a simile
