Annotated Bibliography On Water For All

Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.

In order to address the issue of clean water availability, the objectives must address multiple levels of the social-ecological model simultaneously. Three overarching objectives will be addressed. 1) The current public water system must increase in capacity. The current public water system is small and up to 40% of households do not have access to the public water system (2). 2) Due to the rural nature of the population, expansion of the current system should begin

Water is a very important commodity to live. Some people say it’s a right, but others at as if it’s a privilege, and as a result, people lack it. The human body is about sixty percent water, but in what I have seen just in my twenty years of life, people do not drink merely enough of it. Instead, water has been replaced as a go-to drink by things like milk, coffee, pop, or energy drinks, but natural energy lies in water. With water we can be more energized, awake, and of course, hydrated, which all together collaborate to help us flourish, stay healthy, and live long. It’s most of the earth’s surface, too; water’s all around us, but we neglect it and deny its crucial place in our health and humanity.

There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed countries the population growth has strained available water resources and stretched the ability of governments and private firms to provide safe drinking water to the vast majority of the population. Seventy one percent of

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.

Water is vital necessity of human life. Nowadays, the world is incurring a serious problem like shortage of water. Britain's chief scientist John Beddington (2010) claimed that if in the coming decade the rate of population growth climbs, the scarcity of drinkable water will become the urgent problem for all humanity. Unfortunately, lack of potable water has bad influence on people’s health and may lead to international conflicts. Because of the shortage of water people use water from unsafe sources. It also means that people can not properly wash, clean their clothes and houses. It is obvious that poor quality of water and violation of sanitary standards can cause serious diseases. Furthermore, today there is competition for water between

The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the water crisis in the region of Africa and how water can cause many other problems such as inadequate sanitation, poverty and diseases for the population. People living in third world countries are suffering from the water crisis that has become a major problem for the United Nations, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Millennium Development Goals and many of the other organizations. For some of these organizations have been successful in providing a bit more water through the years it’s still a working process. Water is essential for life, it’s not just for the body’s physical need; yet millions of people do not have access to clean water. The lack of accessible of fresh water contributes too many diseases such as HIV, AIDS, waterborne diseases, causing the death of millions of women and children annually in the region. This is making it harder for the communities to develop a safer home for their families and to improve the conditions of the country. This research paper will examine the problems, solutions and causes. How it all comes together, to contribute to this water crisis and to weather there is a solutions set by the United Nations, studies that have been conducted and other organizations, which can maybe work for the years to come. In addition, the same water problems are going to be discussed with regard to Africa for statics, examples and quotes done by the organizations in the past and

Planet earth is made up of seventy percent of water and thirty percent of territorial land. Of that seventy percent, ninety-seven percent is salt water, meaning only three percent is drinkable water. Accounting for that three percent, only one percent is surface water; the other two percent is ground water. Most of the surface water is unusable due to agriculture runoff; industrial trash is a great deal of surface water that has been contaminated with harmful chemicals. Industries are relying on ground water which is being depleted at immense rates. It is true that many areas of the world are already facing dramatic water shortages. Water scarcity is the upmost challenge issue humans face because of poor practices in sustainability. "There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies"(Cordery). The issue of water scarcity raises many other issues. In this essay, the social dimensions that water shortages acquire, the social drivers that create the issue, and the potential solutions towards this issue will be discussed.

The purpose of this essay is to review the literature pertinent to my chosen research topic for this academic term. The focus of my research is water viewed as a global human need. My thesis is as follows: Due to the diminishing levels of usable water at the basic domestic level, there is urgent need to promote water sustainability sensitization from the domestic level for a greater global goal of water conservation as a natural resource. This essay will cite and explain literature that is relevant to this inquiry in order to further expand the knowledge base about this topic and how I can contribute to the conversation.

People can conserve water through the use of modern efficient electronic devices such as digital water meters at homes and industries and rain-dew irrigation system on farmlands to make water wastage by more than half. Governments around the world need to work on legislation to promote and educate its citizens on efficient use of fresh drinking water and the consequences of running out of fresh water, if water conservation is not strictly adhered to more than one billion people, mainly in Africa, south America and Asia lack access to fresh drinking water. If the water crisis situation is not remedied now, more than three quarters of the world’s population will be living with serious water shortages. Humans believe that water being nature’s gift, its supply is unlimited. This assumption is false. The quantity of fresh water available is less than half the amount of all the water on earth. Salt water and polar ice, makeup the rest of available water (Barlow 145).

Issues relating to water are increasingly becoming a major global concern. The need for fresh water is fundamental to human life and an increasing percentage of the global population do not have access to it. In 2011 the UN Secretary-General expressed how ‘Safe drinking water and basic sanitation are intrinsic to human survival, well-being and dignity’.) . However, with the global population on the increase, the demand for water and food

Michael Garbachev, the ex-president of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, once said that ‘water has the power to move millions of people’. Earth has water everywhere on the surface, underground, and above the earth in the air. There is only 2.5 percent of fresh water share in total global water availability and it is only 1.2 percent of all fresh water. Why is water so important? The simple answer is Water is essential for meeting human needs and wants. It is used directly for drinking, sanitation, and food production, and only slightly less directly for economic production across a very broad range of sectors. It is thus a primary basis for sustaining human well-being for generations to come.. Dr. Bhumbla, a

In the world today 650 million people don’t have access to clean and safe water, 2.3 billion people don’t have access to adequate sanitation which is 1 out of 3 of the world’s population, and 315 thousand children under five die every year from diarrheal diseases caused by unclean water and substandard or nonexistent sanitation which is 900 children per day. The world is made up of nearly 70 percent water, but only 2.5 percent of that water is fresh water. Out of that 2.5 percent only about 1 percent of that is easily accessible which is most trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In total, only about 7 one thousandth of a percent of the water is used for the 7.4 billion people now on this earth. Developing countries suffer

Today, water scarcity is one of the most serious issues in the world. With over 2 million people dying each year, the majority being kids, from water-borne diseases. Along with one-sixth of the entire population not having access to safe drinking water. “The hardest hit regions have been countries in the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.”(Fox)

Commission for Sustainable Development is worried about the future and as early as 1997 the alarm is given by the authorities on this subject. What is problematic is the inequality of the resource and of its access between individuals. Water becomes a national heritage, an economic environment and is often polluted. It is often a subject of conflict.