The Importance Of Accessibility To Clean Water

Water scarcity is an environmental problem that reaches around the globe. This lack of water is called the World Water Crisis. In the U.S, people are privileged enough to be able to use clean water for many things. However, the U.S is effected by water scarcity as well as countries who are underdeveloped and aren 't as privileged as we are. Only 2.5 percent of Earth 's water is fresh water, of which industrial uses account for 22 percent of available fresh water, domestic use requires only 8 percent, and the rest-over two-thirds of our demand-is used for agriculture. Water is said to be a right for all living things, however, many underdeveloped countries in the world, such as Ghana or Rajasthan, are victims of corporations who come

People in Developing countries drink pond, stream, pond water which could be contaminated by animals and people. In third world countries they’re not really educated so they don’t know that the water they drink is bad for them. Another way they get water is by digging deep holes until they find water, it may be cleaner than the surface water but there would be still be a chance that it could be contaminated, which could end up giving them diseases and even death. 884 million people in the world don’t have water that is safe to drink. Also more 80 percent of sewage in third world countries contaminates their water source. Schools also don’t clean/safe water for kids to drink. In developing countries women and children spend 6 hours every day trying to collecting water and on

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.

According to (" UN-Water”) 783 million people do not have access to clean drinking water. The majority of people living in America have plenty of access to clean drinking water and often take that opportunity for granted . The lack of water in undeveloped countries can have a major effect on the economy. Countries that Have clean drinking water means being able to shower, cook, drink, water that can also be used for agriculture. Undeveloped countries with unclean water do not have these benefits

The author, Maude Barlow, begins her article by stating that there is a problem concerning the world’s water and how it can affect the people’s way of living. She includes three possible outcomes that could result from how people are mistreating the water supply. Sources of freshwater are becoming scarcer as people keep polluting and depleting them. As the lack of clean freshwater decreases, the amount of children dying increases, more so than war and diseases altogether which occurs more frequently with those that are of low socioeconomic status. Those that belong to companies dealing with water exchange are taking advantage of the shortages by selling them to regular people at expensive rates; this could ultimately lead to the market’s dictating

In regions with low supply of fresh water, higher priority is given to high revenue generating activities (pg. 49). So if you have money, you’ll get all the water you want while others don’t. The ramifications of this are that the poor people are left with insufficient water for drinking and hygiene leading to dehydration and health problems. Also often the nonhuman consumers are overlooked – such as the flora and fauna of the region – and there aren’t enough water allocated to them which in time leads to the land drying up and causing wild

The commodification of water is driven by fears of water scarcity, accessibility and cleanliness. Water is recognized a basic human “the human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses” (UN, 2002). But despite this it estimated approximately a billion people do not have access to clean drinking water.

Zola opened her exhausted eyes and woke Lulu, her sister. The two grabbed large tin buckets and tiptoed out of their tiny living space, to avoid waking their family. They crouched under the tiny door, their eyes blinded by the rising sun from the outdoors. They looked at each other with wide eyes, preparing themselves for the hours of walking they would be doing today. This is the daily life of an individual child in places such as Sub Saharan Africa, like Zola and Lulu, with no access to safe water. Safe water is water that is safe to consume, because it contains no harmful bacteria or contaminants.The access to safe water is a growing issue among people around the world, including several millions of people in areas such as Sub Saharan Africa,

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

In Narrabri Australia the problem is where they have no access to clean water as it is polluted. Narrabri is north west of Sydney is a popular tourist attraction. It is used to raise cattle, sheep, grow cotton and mine for coal. Because of a coal mining, Namoi river has been getting polluted by the high amount of methane and ammonia. I was asked to find a way to filter out the methane in the water and make it safe to drink. During our research to filter the water we found a design by ‘All About Water Filters’ that helped filter out small particles and clean out impure chemicals from the water by using gravel, sand, activated carbon and cloth. In our experiment we found out it was a good design but we needed to add two more layers on the neck

Water should be treated as a human right due to the simple reason that it is a necessity for human survival. For water to be treated as a human right, it would have to be completely free, universal, and non-transferable. These characterizations are important to mention because this would mean that private institutions may not seize and distribute this necessity for their own profit. The belief behind this ideology is efficiency. The inefficiency of this human right is proven in today’s world by the 842,000 human deaths; all due to the lack of this commodity, according to, “Is Water A Human Right” by Now This World. This kind of inefficiency is also the result of negative externalities caused by major corporations like Nestle. As mentioned in

How Does Access to Water Improve Health? Access to water is a human right, closely linked to the right to nutrition and wellbeing, so how is it that nearly 900 million people around the world have limited to no access to uncontaminated, fresh and safe water? It is a known fact that everyone needs water to stay hydrated, but the need for water stretches more than just hydration, along with food, it is the key to good health, so how does access to water improve health? First of all, the time spent to collect the water could be used by going to school and getting a good education. Without a good education, important life features cannot be reached, such as, a good job which leads to a good income. This means that food and other resources can be

The severe health concerns and effects from poor water and sanitation have drawn the attention not only of small international organizations like Water.org, but also of the United Nations, which declared the years of 2005 to 2015 as the Water for Life Decade. Its goal was to “bring attention to the lack of access to clean water and sanitation systems.” In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly reaffirmed their efforts when they passed a resolution which recognized the human right to have access to clean water and sanitation. However, there are still over 663 million people who need access to clean water. The attempt to garner international recognition to this dearth of access was to bring awareness to the number of obstacles people who had

Water is the most important substance in the universe today, without it people would not be able to continue existence. Water covers most part of our planet, only a small number of the world’s water is fresh water. People need freshwater to drink, bath, irrigate our farm fields, it is incredibly rare. Everyone has the right to require access to enough clean water. Using and drinking clean, safe water is a human right. But the shortage of water resources has become one of the main problems of the 21st century in many societies and the world. Although there is no global water resource shortage happening, but more and more regions are affected by long-term water

Water is of great significance to us. Our body is mainly composed of water and we are constantly losing water by sweating, urinating, and a lot more. Because of all of these ways of losing water we also need ways of gaining water each day. If you don’t drink enough water you become dehydrated and not having enough water in your system could result in you not being able to get rid of poisonous chemicals in your body. Waterborne illnesses are illnesses caused by contaminated or untreated water, so the greatest contributor to waterborne diseases is inadequate sanitation. Some countries don’t have enough water to use for toilets, so they dump their waste in their water, not knowing that it’s contaminating their drinking water. (Parks 23). The United