Global Water Crisis – A Brief
Note
In this
very Brief Discussion we shall try
to highlight that at this moment we are
facing severe water crisis globally and
this will be clear from the following hard facts –
·
Everyday
more than 800 children under 5 die from diarrhea caused by polluted water, lack
of proper sanitation and unsafe hygiene practices ;
·
785
million people lack access to clean water ;
·
Women
and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours bringing water
every day ;
·
The
average woman in rural Africa walks 6 kilometers everyday to bring 40 pounds of water ;
·
200,00,00,000 people
on our planet live without access to adequate sanitation ;
Special Sufferings of
Women & Girls
In poor
families of Asia, Africa and South America
which comprise the vast majority of the
global population of this section, the women & girls often bear the burden
of carrying water for their families ; They
spend an estimated 200 million hours hauling water everyday ;
Besides,
girls who attend schools until adolescence
are more likely to drop out when
they start menstruating unless the school has clean water, separate latrine for
female students, sanitary supplies and support for hygiene behavior change ;
World Water Day and World
Toilet Day
In 1993, the U.N. General Assembly designated
March 22 as ‘World Water Day’ ;
In 2013,
the U.N. designated November 19 as ‘World
Toilet Day’ to highlight the global issue that billions of people still do
not have access to proper sanitation ;
In 2000,
the U.N. Member States Set Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) for development progress, including a 2015 target to
halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water ;
The United
Nations recognizes the importance of addressing the global water crisis each year on World Water Day,
March, 22 ;
However, it
is a good news that with continued
emphasis by the UNO, the MDG’s clean water access target was achieved five
years ahead of the schedule ; But,
still, it is clear that a lot of works
remains to do ;
Some Solutions in
Short
Apart from
other various ways for getting over this water crisis the most important technologies are Water
Recycling, Energy-efficient Desalination
Plants, Solar & UV Water Filtration including Nano-Filtration, Spreading Awareness
for
Water
preservation, Water Pricing and most importantly, the Rain-Water Harvesting which should come first ;
[Source : ‘World Vision’ and others]
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