Much of the world lives without access to clean water. Privatization of water resources, promoted as a means to bring business efficiency into water service management, has instead led to reduced access for the poor around the world as prices for these essential services have risen. •Some 1.8 million children die each year as a result of diarrhea • Lack of water means lost school time for many children 443 million school days are lost each year from water-related illness •Access to piped water into the household averages about 85% for the wealthiest 20% of the population, compared with 25% for the poorest 20%. •1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometer, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 liters per day. In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 liters of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day. The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day.) •Close to half of all people in developing countries suffer at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits • Lack of water means women spend many hours collecting water every day, sometimes from many miles away. Problems for Women Millions of women spending several hours a day collecting water •To these human costs can be added the massive economic waste associated with the water and sanitation deficit.… The costs associated with health spending, productivity losses and labour diversions … are greatest in some of the poorest countries. Sub-Saharan Africa loses about 5% of GDP, or some $28.4 billion annually, a figure that exceeds total aid flows and debt relief to the region in 2003. 400 million children (1 in 5 from the developing world) have no access to safe water. 1.4 million children will die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation (State of the World’s Children, 2005, UNICEF) And the western world is fracking it away to radioactive waste , to spill into rivers and streams , Its no longer political its personal that Canada has not signed a UN declaration for clean water being a Human right , its a show of cards this leader has already sold it out , just saying we need to change it now
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:28:56 +0000
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