It's hard to believe, but in China, India and Nigeria, millions of children every day can not drink clean water. Globally, nearly 800 million people have no regular access to drinking water.
A glass of clean water every few days or even once a week? This is what happens in the most densely populated countries in the world where children are forced to drink contaminated water, often with puddles, the risk of infection, often fatal diseases.
According to the report of UNICEF as much as 90 percent of child deaths due to diarrhea is the result of drinking dirty water. Educational and construction of wastewater treatment plants yielding promising results, because over the decades has managed to reduce the number of children dying from 1.2 million to 760,000 per year.
It is still far too much and further action is needed to improve water quality and increase availability. The numbers speak for themselves, as many as 90 children die every day due to lack of access to clean water, associated with the lack of hygiene and desires.
The scale of the phenomenon scares us and at the same time makes us less sensitive to it. We should work for the poor, that everyone has an equal chance of slaking thirst every day.
Its funny how the world is evolving into such a well developed technological society BUT we still canot eradicate the smallest of the problems like *clean, drinkable water.
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Thanks for this. It is incredible how drinking water is being actually wasted in some countries while somewhere even the dirty water is not available in a tap few steps far.
On the other side, sometimes the hygienic habits in certain locations are so low that people themselves defecate into water, knowing that their neighbours are in direct contact with the same water. And all of us do realize how these products can be a source of diarrhea and others.
So it is also important to prevent environment pollution.
Washington Post:
“Uncle, you wear a tie around your neck, shoes on your feet, but you still defecate in the open. What kind of progress is this?” asks a child in one commercial. Another says: "You may have a smartphone in your hand, but you still squat on train tracks.”
It moves ahead ! :)
Actually, in Central Europe, in blocks of flats built during communism, there is usual that a drinking water is being used in Water Closets - there is simply no parallel plumbing for service and drinking water.
How good I felt when I was living in a permaculture village where we used composting toilets, instead of wasting water this way.
We are still too far to behave nicely against our natural resources and other inhabitants of the planet.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/09/scientists-test-tiny-water-purifier-powered-light-160908150406088.html
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I live on the banks of one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. So you would not think that I have fear of running out. The Great Lakes are vast amounts of water, inland fresh water seas. But I go out to places like Las Vegas and see them spraying water in the air .... in the middle of a desert. Not just doing it one place but they are doing it all over the place.
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Thanks for raising awareness about this issue. I'm from India and fortunately I live in a developed city. But majority of India's population live in rural areas.
Hopefully in the future , these necessities are taken care of , and developing nations can focus on the improvement of the country.
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