The Importance Of Clean Water

According to the Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, “783 million people, or 11 per cent of the global population, remain without access to an improved source of drinking water. Such sources include household connections, public standpipes, boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs and rainwater collections.” (United Nations, 2012) The United Nations Water Conference in 1977 along with a few other conferences, addressed helping approximately “1.3 billion people in developing countries gain access to safe drinking water.” (United Nations, 2012) While there is progress being made, we see that various regions without clean drinking water. Reports show, “In four of nine developing regions, 90 per cent or more of the population now uses an improved drinking water source. In contrast, coverage remains very low in Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa, neither of which is on track to meet the MDG drinking water target by 2015. Over 40 per cent of all people without improved drinking water live in sub-Saharan Africa.” (United Nations, 2012) It is shown that rural areas still lack drinkable water as opposed to urban areas. Consistent improvement has been made to supply populated areas with a reliable source of drinking water. However, research shows, “Coverage with improved drinking water sources for rural populations is still lagging. In 2010, 96 per cent of the urban population used an

Are you ever thirsty for a nice cold glass of clean water? Most privileged people can find decent drinkable water in at least three places in the average kitchen. It’s a gift we commonly undermine. Unfortunately, many adults and young children aren’t granted this privilege. Striving each day to find clean water and still worry if it is safe enough to drink. All around the world some of the deadliest bacteria, diseases, and germs are alive in the water. Underprivileged countries do not have clean running water or even a decent well to draw from; this results in drinking from stagnate rivers, salty oceans, and contaminated puddles. Each year, thousands of people die from the bacteria living in unclean water. Sorrowfully, many of those numbers are young children! When a child becomes sick from bacteria found in their drinking water, an entire daily system becomes thrown out of balance. They cannot attend school or work, and it affects friends and family around them! Moreover, economical issues arise. Humans around the world have their whole lives ahead of them. Everyone should have daily access to clean drinking water to keep them healthy and growing. In this fallen world that’s not always the reality. The cycle that contaminated water brings is almost unstoppable.

Specific Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to provide a persuasive speech on the issue of water pollution and inaccessibility to clean water in third world countries and offer some plausible solutions. The three solutions are filtration systems, chlorination, and collection grids.

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.

also is the overall need for clean, potable, and unpolluted water in developing countries. This

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 earth is the only planet suitable for human being and other livings things to live on as of present time. Globally, ground water resources dwarf surface water supplies. Study has estimated 900 million people lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation in the world (1). Unfortunately, many millions die each year from preventable waterborne diseases. Clean water is globally important to human being in so many ways, water is not only important as an element to hydrate and nurture lives, it is also a source of energy.

Water and sanitation: Around 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhea diseases caused by lack of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. At any one time about one-half of all people in developing countries are suffering from diseases associated with water. Diseases may be caused by drinking water contaminated by human or animal waste, insects which breed in water or parasites. The energy expended carting water long distances also has a health and time cost on women and children. Improved access to water and a knowledge of hygiene and management practices can lead to improved

Access to clean drinking water, piped directly into one’s household is not an option for millions households living in middle- and low-income countries. According to a 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) report, only 58 percent of the world’s population receives their drinking water from a piped connection which goes directly into their homes (WHO/UNICEF 2015). Households that leave their home to collect water rely on water sources that provide varying quality of drinking water. The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) defines improved drinking water sources as those constructed to provide protection from outside contaminants, specifically fecal matter (WHO 2012). However, having access to an improved drinking water source does not

Water is one of the most important sources of energy that keep humans from being dehydrated, not only that; it is an abundant resource that supports many life forms on Earth. With only one access to fresh drinking water, metropolitans from the Victorian period involuntarily have to use the water from the Thames River which also the place where their excrements were being released. From this point of view, we can be assured that water is the most important source that humans are in need. Water treatment plants were created to ensure that waters from different sources are safe to consume. Though technologies are invented to prevent future epidemic outbreaks, water supply is still a problem in many developing countries. More than 5,000 children die each year in Africa from consuming contaminated or dehydrated from the lack water. Without access to fresh water supplies, government officials have no choice but to receive aid from friendly countries. Up until today, a countless number of children are suffering from the lacking of

Thesis statement: Fresh and clean water is vital to the very existence of the human race.

783 million people in the world are without access to clean sustainable water. The impact of the lack of clean water can be seen in countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, and India. The trash in villages of Cambodia seeps into the standing water and releases toxins in the ground which enters into the water. The lack of clean water has Cambodian children exposed to diseases. While in Ethiopia, an examination shows that fifty one percent of the populations drinking water in the rural area is unimproved. To better understand more about access to clean water, it’s necessary to take a look at India. Twenty one percent of India’s diseases are water-related and when a water system is installed, it adds to the overall development of water. Access to clean, sustainable water is needed for survival; in countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, and India, this is difficult.

Many countries in the world today deal with countless amounts of issues that seem impossible to solve. One of these issues is clean water and sanitation. A good amount of countries in the world do not have water that is suitable for drinking. It is believed that having the access to water, hygiene and sanitation is a human right, but so many people in our world today to not have access to any of these. Clean water is considered water that you are able to use safely without worrying about the risk of health issues. About 1.8 billion people around the world only have access to drinking water that is contaminated with feces (United Nations, 2015). Sanitation can be defined as the importance of hygiene and prohibiting disease by maintenance of sanitary conditions. Around 2.4 billion people do not have access to sanitation services, like toilets (United Nations, 2015). The lack of water impacts more than 40 percent of the world and is supposed to rise (United Nations, 2015). A little over 80 percent of contaminated water comes from human activities and is dumped into the oceans and rivers without any treatment to filter it, which leads to pollution. The United Nations mentions that “water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. Drought afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and

A direct relationship exists between water, sanitation, health, nutrition and human well being. Consumption of contaminated drinking water, improper disposal of human excreta, lack of personal and food hygiene and improper disposal of solid and liquid waste have been the major causes of diseases in our country. There has been a key focus in various government programmes like the Total Sanitation Campaign to spread the message of maintaining personal hygiene for reducing water pollution. Better linkages between ministries of health and rural development for developing programmes to solve problems of drinking water and health will be useful.

Clean water is not only a very important thing for humans but for farms and livestock as well. Farmers need clean water to properly nourish their crops and to keep their livestock healthy. Without clean water, the crop production yield would not be as high and would lead to poor crops. Livestock require clean water to remain healthy and stay well nourished.