Water Scarcity and the Importance of Water
Water Scarcity & the Importance of Water
Introduction:
This report has been written to inform you of the world water crisis which is getting worse every second. It has also been written to inform you about the water scarcity and importance.
Water Scarcity and importance:
Clean, safe drinking water is not easy to find any longer. Today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don't have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles. Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it. In places like sub-Saharan Africa, time lost gathering water and suffering from water-borne diseases is limiting people's true potential.
Why Water?:
Every day in rural communities and poor urban centres throughout the world , hundreds of millions of people suffer because the don’t have access to clean, safe water. Women and girls especially bear the burden of walking miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds - full of water-borne disease that is making them and their families sick.Illness from drinking dirty water and the time lost fetching it robs entire communities of their futures. Hope is put on hold in over half of the developing world's primary schools without access to water and sanitation.
How are people affected?:
Without water, life would not exist. It is a important for all human and economic development. But still today, 780 million people do not have access to clean water. More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet! Only 2.53 percent of earth’s water is fresh, and some two-thirds of that is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow cover.
A Common Struggle
People take access to safe water for granted in developed country’s (do you?). But did you know that this wasn’t always the case. A little more than 100 years ago, New York, London and Paris and other developed
Introduction:
This report has been written to inform you of the world water crisis which is getting worse every second. It has also been written to inform you about the water scarcity and importance.
Water Scarcity and importance:
Clean, safe drinking water is not easy to find any longer. Today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don't have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles. Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it. In places like sub-Saharan Africa, time lost gathering water and suffering from water-borne diseases is limiting people's true potential.
Why Water?:
Every day in rural communities and poor urban centres throughout the world , hundreds of millions of people suffer because the don’t have access to clean, safe water. Women and girls especially bear the burden of walking miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds - full of water-borne disease that is making them and their families sick.Illness from drinking dirty water and the time lost fetching it robs entire communities of their futures. Hope is put on hold in over half of the developing world's primary schools without access to water and sanitation.
How are people affected?:
Without water, life would not exist. It is a important for all human and economic development. But still today, 780 million people do not have access to clean water. More than twice that many, 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet! Only 2.53 percent of earth’s water is fresh, and some two-thirds of that is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow cover.
A Common Struggle
People take access to safe water for granted in developed country’s (do you?). But did you know that this wasn’t always the case. A little more than 100 years ago, New York, London and Paris and other developed