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 Ecological Issue: Enough Water

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A little over 2/3 of the Earth is covered by water:  70.8% (71%) of the surface is water, 29.2 % is land.

Clean water is essential to life, yet over a billion people lack access to it and over two million people die annually from diseases related to unsafe drinking water. In urban areas they collect it from polluted waterways or pay high prices to buy it from vendors who obtain it from dubious sources. The water is often dirty and unsafe, but they have no alternative. You begin to feel thirsty after losing 1% of bodily fluids and risk death if you lose 10%.1 Demand for water is increasing rapidly because of population growth, industrialisation, irrigation for agriculture, urbanisation, and better living standards. It is estimated that by 2025, two thirds of the world's population will live in conditions of water shortage, and like so many other impacts of development, access is unequal. WaterAid works with some of the poorest people in 15 countries in Africa and Asia. WaterAid strives to improve this situation through a comprehensive approach which incorporates potable water, sanitation and hygiene education as the key elements in the reduction of poverty. WaterAid works in rural, urban and peri-urban settings, on integrated projects that provide access to safe water (through simple technologies such as handpumps, spring protections or hand-dug wells), sanitation (through the construction of household and communal latrines) and hygiene education (training in key personal and domestic behaviors such as handwashing at critical times). A report looking at WaterAid projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, and Tanzania showed impacts on people's lives far beyond health improvements and reduction in time spent collecting water. With more time and less disease, people can work more. Impacts included improvements in household income levels and livelihood security; increased school attendance; better child care and teacher enrolment; social and cultural benefits such as reduced stress levels; increased status and self esteem; better family and community relations, and increased ability to observe religious rites and customs. Communities have been able to achieve a better quality of life and escape the spiral of poverty. Over the last 50 years, enormous gains have been made in the provision of clean water and sanitation throughout the developing world. Infant mortality has been halved and twice as many people have access to safe drinking water compared to 30 years ago. There are plenty of grounds for hope, but the problem is extensive and much remains to be done. Some WaterAid Key Facts and Statistics · 884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population. · 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population. · 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5000 deaths a day. · 97.5% of the earth's water is saltwater. If the world's water fitted into a bucket, only one teaspoonful would be drinkable. · At any given time, almost half the population of the developing world is suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with inadequate provision of water and sanitation. · The average European uses 200 litres of water every day. North Americans use 400 litres. The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking. (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)) · Households in rural Africa spend an average of 26% of their time fetching water, and it is generally women who are burdened with the task. 40 billion working hours are spent carrying water each year in Africa. The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is commonly 20kg, the same as the average airport luggage allowance. Crusading for cleaner water for all! Take a moment to check out Drugs In Drinking Water Help spread the word about what you can do as a consumer to make your water cleaner! Wateraid in India: India is a huge and diverse country with a population of more than one billion people. There are vast divides between rich and poor with nearly 30% of the population living in poverty. Population growth is rapid, particularly in urban areas due to migration from rural villages. There are vast numbers without sanitation and water. For every 1000 children, 87 die before their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable diseases like diarrhea.  WaterAid has both rural and urban projects to help increase access to water and sanitation. In rural projects WaterAid and its partners help people to gain access to water and sanitation from the Government. Projects focus on promoting sanitation among the rural poor by creating a demand for latrines.  A series of well received training manuals and materials developed by WaterAid have also given hygiene promotion a boost. The problems in urban areas are more complex. As cities and towns become more developed, the slum and squatter settlements where the poor live are being pushed further to the  edges of towns and cities without any legal right to water and sanitation services.  Urban governance, management of utilities, bankrupt municipalities in small towns, costly infrastructure and the lack of waste management are all major challenges that need to be faced. Wateraid in Pakistan: Pakistan is one of WaterAid's key urban projects.  WaterAid currently works in collaboration with ten local organizations in Pakistan to provide sanitation facilities to those living in the sprawling, unplanned slums surrounding the country's major urban centers - Karachi, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Uch, Lodhran, Multan and Mingora. The first urban program WaterAid supported was the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) in Karachi.  This is an innovative community-led engineering project that empowers communities at street level to finance, construct and manage their own underground sewerage systems. Wateraid Australia: Wateraid Australia works to improve the health and quality of life among rural poor communities through integrated water, sanitation and hygiene education activities, and to advocate for increased quality and quantity output of the whole rural Water and Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Wateraid Britain: The British charity WaterAid provides education in water hygiene for poor people. But before starting to educate the population of a village, it first makes sure they have a permanent supply of clean water. This tangible change tends to convince the village women – who are the main focus of the organisation’s efforts – better than words. A fundamental element in its approach is to reduce the distance they have to go to get clean water.  In Britain, householders receive, along with their water bills, an invitation to support WaterAid’s projects. The water companies, which were among the organisations that set up the charity, have every confidence in its work and are happy to let it send out such an appeal to the 23 million households they supply. In the projects supported in Tanzania, a driving force has been what are known as ‘wamma’ teams – made up of people from WaterAid and the Ministries of Water, Health and Community Development. These teams convene village meetings about the projects, help villagers to set up water committees, and employ supervisors and pump technicians. They also organise education for villagers in water conservation and hygiene. WaterAid is seeking to provide sustainable development assistance – assistance which does not simply dry up when the pump breaks down, but goes on working in the long term. Its strategy includes handing over full responsibility for projects to villagers once they have learned how to manage their own water.

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