Update 2021: According to Worldvision org:
The United Nations recognizes the importance of addressing the global water crisis each year on World Water Day, March 22. Without clean, easily accessible water, families and communities are locked in poverty for generations. Children drop out of school and parents struggle to make a living.
Women and children are the most affected — children because they’re more vulnerable to diseases caused by dirty water and women and girls because they often bear the burden of carrying water for their families for an estimated 200 million hours each day.
World Vision is reaching one new person with clean water every 10 seconds and one new person with handwashing behavior change programming as well. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we provided handwashing facilities at 4,789 schools and 2,480 healthcare facilities, and nearly 1 million households gained access to clean water as well.
Fast facts: Global water crisis
785 million people lack access to clean water. That’s one in 10 people on the planet.
Women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours hauling water every day.
The average woman in rural Africa walks 6 kilometers every day to haul 40 pounds of water.
Every day, more than 800 children under 5 die from diarrhea caused by contaminated water, poor sanitation, and unsafe hygiene practices.
2 billion people live without access to adequate sanitation.
673 million people defecate in the open.
One of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals aims to provide universal access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.
Water scarcity is the lack of freshwater resources to meet water demand. It affects every continent and was listed in 2019 by the World Economic Forum as one of the largest global risks in terms of potential impact over the next decade.
Billions of People Lack Water
Clean freshwater is an essential ingredient for a healthy human life, but 1.1 billion people lack access to water, and 2.7 billion experience water scarcity at least one month a year. By 2025, two-thirds of the world's population may be facing water shortages.
Water is essential to life, yet 844 million people in the world - 1 in 9 - lack access to it. According to a report by the World Economic Forum, the water crisis is the #4 global risk in terms of impact on society.
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Access to safe water can protect and save lives, just because it's there. Access to safe water has the power to turn time spent into time saved, when it's close and not hours away.
Africa example:
Africa is projected to add 3 billion people this century. With the continent at risk for the desertification of arable lands/shortages of water, how will this be sustained?
Africa’s population growth is not due to having more babies, but rather it is due to improvement in reducing the death rate, and increasing life expectancy.
The problem the world has is not solely due to overpopulation, but rather the greedy overexploitation of irreplaceable resources.
From Wikipedia, we can learn that “20% of the people in developed nations consume 86% of the world's goods. 12% of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water. Globally, 20% of the world's people in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures “
Access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlocking education, economic prosperity, and improved health.
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