Shortage Of Clean Water In Sub-Saharan Countries

More than most would imagine, illiteracy is a phenomenal crisis throughout the world. Today, there are approximately 800 million illiterates in the world. Ninety-three million of those are Americans who have basic or below basic literacy. Thirty million of the 93,000,000 are functionally illiterate. The other 63,000,000 read at a fifth to an eighth grade level and cannot understand a basic newspaper. According to Literacy Partners, a foundation which helps low-income parents with limited English proficiency transfer literacy

Thanks to the United Nations general assembly recognizing the need for clean water in Resolution 64/292, the states and international organizations have been called on to provide funding and resources to help developing countries provide safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water to all. This is a step in the right direction, seeing as women and children in some countries have to walk more than 30 minutes to collect water- if there is any water to collect at all.

Have you ever thought about how much water you waste each day? If you haven't, than that is pretty normal. People in America have it so good here because they can just walk to a fossate and get clean water. But in other parts of the world it is not that easy. They have to walk long treks just to get water that is not even clean.

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.

During the 90’s, Africa is one of the worst affected from water shortages. The rainfall in Africa comes in bursts; this means the water may not be collected because of how dry the land is. Therefore, Africa has had droughts that have affected the rainfall recently. As an outcome, Africa’s water supply is near scarcity, considering the facts stated.

According to Paulo Freire, “no one elects to be illiterate. One is illiterate because of objective conditions. In certain circumstances, the illiterate man is the man who does not need to read. In other circumstances, he is the one to whom the right to read was denied” (Freire, 1985 p.13). According to Freire’s argument, it is suffice to say that as an individual or leaner perhaps, being literate is not an individual 's choice. As an adult educator aspiring to work with underserved populations among them the Turkana community in northern Kenya, understanding the root causes of illiteracy and overall low rates of enrolments in adult education programs is crucial

"Women do two thirds of the world’s work...Yet they earn only one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. They are among the poorest of the world’s poor." –Barber B. Conable Jr, President, World Bank

There is a huge amount of people who do not have access to clean drinking water around the world. This highly affects their health and growth. Forty percent of Africa’s population and fifty-three percent of Asia’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. The access to clean water is a complicated issue, often influenced by politics, economics, climate, and social structure.

Across the globe there are approximately six hundred and sixty three million people who lack access to clean, safe drinking water. Water is essential to life and a basic human right that everyone, regardless of status or location, should have. Water scarcity has begun to increase with the growth of population and agricultural industry. This scarcity is affecting humans across the globe, even in wealthy industrialized countries. The overuse of water in homes, on farms, and in the workplace has put a burden on the natural environmental systems that keep civilizations going, forcing people to take action. Water scarcity continues to be a modern tragedy worldwide; however, global efforts provide hope for many through their continued outreach programs to bring water to people in need and fix the broken system that has been adopted.

In many countries, illiteracy is a national problem. According to the National Adult Literacy Survey (Literacy Mid-South) approximately 44 million people in the United States cannot read well enough to fill out an application, read a food label, or read a simple story to a child (Literacy Mid-South). According to the Ghana Statistical Service, the literacy rate in Ghana currently

In places, like sub-Saharan Africa, time lost gathering water and suffering from water-borne diseases is limiting people's true potential. Also, causing them to miss important economic and educational opportunities open to men and boys; while people merely try to survive. But it doesn't have to be like this. The problem of water scarcity is a rising one. As more people put ever-increasing requests on limited supplies, the cost and effort to build or even maintain entry to water will increase. “The pertinence of ethics to water utilization and management is clear in a general sense. It is important for everyone involved in water resource management and in public health to have a well-reasoned understanding of the moral values and obligations

We are the Lexington Trails Middle School Lego Panthers. In this paper, you will be enlightened on how freshwater sea sponges can filter contaminated water in third world countries. We specifically chose Cambodia in our topic because 84% of the population of Cambodia does not have access to clean water. Why do they need clean water you may ask? They need clean water because they would be put with the risk of getting many different diseases and infections if they consumed the contaminated water. Some of these diseases/infections might include: diarrhea, some gastrointestinal infections, cholera, dysentery, parasitosis, amoebiasis, shigellosis, cryptosporidiosis, jaundice, Hepatitis A, B, and C, Typhoid fever, or giardia. The symptoms of all

Many statistics further prove the relevancy of the effects of poor education in developing countries. To begin, in 2015 alone, a study recorded 745.1 million illiterate adults. Adult illiteracy rates are above

The World Bank Water Global Practice’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) recently released a working paper identifying findings that support new tactics for habit change in open defecation behavior. These advances draw from the fields of psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral science and were first outlined in the 2015 World Development Report (WDR) on Mind, Society, and Behavior. WDR presents new insight into how people make decisions: thinking automatically, thinking socially, and thinking with mental models, and highlights the potential of future policy approaches that influence behavior while forgoing the assumption of individuals as rational decision-makers.

In past years, literacy was an issues in some countries. In past years, Illiteracy was a big issue to some countries like Pakistan, Ghana Ethiopia, South Africa and other places in Africa. Over the past years, the government of these countries focused on education. The levels of literacy in these countries was too high and there were causes of negative impact toward education. For instance, literacy rate of girls in Pakistan and family were the negative impact. Literacy rates for both gender was too high in Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa and the negative impact was poverty.