Access To Safe Water

Unsafe water supplies are often contaminated with infectious agents, toxic chemicals, and radiological hazards. In 2000, the World Health Organization and UNICEF identified some 2.4 billion people who did not have basic sanitation facilities, and 1.1 billion people without a safe drinking water supply. (Wagner, 2009) Some communities experienced diarrhea, caused by a variety of parasites, viruses, and bacteria that infect people as a result of contaminated drinking water or poor hygiene. In India, more than 500,000 children die from diarrhea every year. Like other tropical diseases, when diarrhea does not kill, it weakens, leaving people more susceptible to other infections, such as tuberculosis and HIV. (Whitman, 2008).

"Water For All" is a mission statement of an MIT project claims that clean water is paramount to a successful society and that there are consequences to inaction toward this problem. The article first provides a description of why water is important and who it affects next, it explains where water is and how it is used and lastly, it analyzes a solution and the consequences if a successful solution is not provided. The author gives data on the people who are affected by the lack of drinkable water in order to convince the reader that this is a large problem. The language in this article is simple yet informative widening the audience to anyone who can help aid the program or anyone who can spread the word about the program.

Clean water is essential to our basic needs as human beings and has been acknowledged as a basic human right according to the UN as of July 28, 2010. Still, 1 in 9 (782 million) people don’t have access to clean water, 1 in 3 (2.5 billion) don’t have access to adequate sanitation which results in the spread of often fatal and preventable disease. In a world where 2 in 5 people own a smartphone, it’s easy to forget that for some people even the most basic necessities are hard to come by. Approximately 3.5 million people die every year due to inadequate water supplies. Access to sanitation and safe drinking water could save the lives of 1.5 million children each year.

At least a billion people in the world do not have or can not afford clean water and more than a million kids die each year from drinking dirty water! In the passage, "Clean Water for a Dirty World", incredible engineers and chemists find ways to purify dirty water for the people who do not have clean water. Three different inventions were included in this passage, the Xylem method, Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS), and the Speedy filter. The Speedy filter is the best filter listed in the passage and the most useful, it can do what the other filters cannot. The Speedy filter is the most effective way for people to get clean water.

Two out of every five people living in Sub-Saharan Africa lack safe water. A baby there is 500 times more likely to die from water-related illness than one from the United States. This is a serious ongoing issue that requires the rest of the world to take action. Water spreads diseases easily if the necessary precautions are not taken. Many developing African countries don’t have sewage treatment, or the people don’t have methods to filter and disinfect. Once a person is sick either there is no way to cure them, or medical care is too expensive, so they are left untreated with a high risk of death. Although many believe that the fight for sanitary water in Africa is insurmountable, people in these developing countries can overcome their challenge to access clean water and avoid water-borne diseases through proper sewage treatment facilities, universal water filtration and medical care.

The inequality when it comes to water scarcity is unacceptable and it does not meet the criteria for Reasonable Access to Clean water for multiple reasons. It is believed that 780million people lack access to clean water and another 2.5 Billion people lack access to improved sanitation (so they only have enough to drink and nothing else). Reasonable access to clean water should mean that water is offered at the lowest possible price so that more people can afford it but it is often in the poorest countries that the water they need is more expensive and harder to access and it is often due to avoidable causes.

By the middle of the twentieth century, spectacular efforts to improve water-quality treatment and major investments in modern drinking-water systems had almost eliminated the risks of unsafe water. Those of us who have the good fortune to live in the industrialized world now take safe drinking water entirely for granted. We turn on a faucet and out comes safe, often free fresh water. But those efforts and investments are in danger of being wasted, and the public benefit of safe tap water lost, in favor of private gain in the form of little plastic water bottles.

consume water in a modest way. We hear of campaigns in social media to save water

Now you may be thinking, obviously. However, it is a very large issue in our world right now and something needs to be done. There are 842,000 deaths in the world per year due to the intake of polluted water. 58% of these casualties could be prevented because of clean water. With this project, we can inform people about this issue in our world and we can slowly but surely make a change that will help many. We have already notified over 20 individuals about the complication at hand. With the assistance of professionals, we could alter the lifestyle of

Millions of people throughout the world, especially those in third world countries, do not have access to clean drinking water. Throughout the world, there are many countries that do not have the means to provide safe drinking water to their entire population. Drinking non-purified water can lead to many illnesses and in some cases death. Having been to India, just one of the countries with limited access to clean drinking water, I have seen and experienced these problems first hand.There are many products and processes that help address this problem. These solutions range from low tech solutions, like repairing old wells, to the high-tech solutions like personal water purifiers that filter the water as you walk. While these solutions are possible,

Aishia is a 22 years old woman who lives in Bitongo, a rural village in Sub-Saharan, Africa. Without a reliable source of water near this village, Aishia has to travel up to 40 km each and every day to collect enough water for her family, taking up to 8 a day and taking significant time away from education. A lot of people live here with no clean water and no sanitation. Many people get very ill here with fevers, coughs and terrible

On 28 July 2010 the human right to water was clearly accepted by the United Nations General Assembly. Clean drinking water are essential to the realization of all human rights were also been acknowledged (United Nations, 2014). The human right to water include five factors which are sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable (United Nations, 2014). However, in these five factors, sufficiency and safety are the top two serious issues which will be discussed in this report. Sufficiency means the water supply for a person, between 50 and 100 liters, must be enough and continuous (United Nations, 2014). And the water supply must meet the world Health Organization Guidelines for drinking water quality. This essay will discuss two major problems in two different countries which are water scarcity in Ethiopia and water sanitation in Kenya.

Without a decent plumbing system, most Africans have access to water from the ponds or streams. According to the statement made by WHO in 2004, there is only 16% of citizens in sub-Saharan has access to water through a tap in their house (WHO). It suggests that the household connection of water is insufficient. As a result, African women and young girls have to walk miles to get water every day. Moreover, the wells are not built broadly in Africa since the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry neglects it’s responsible for the management of

Intro – “Over 4,000 children die every day from water related diseases. In fact, more lives have been lost after World War II due to contaminated water than from all forms of violence and war. This humanitarian catastrophe has been allowed to fester for generations. We must stop it.” [Herald Tribune]

Every day Americans depend on public water systems to treat and deliver over 44 billion gallons of water to homes daily (“Importance of Clean Water”). However, Americans