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Water
According to the United Nations, everyday 4,400 children under the age of
five (5) die around the world, halving fallen sick because of unclean water
and sanitation. In fact, five items as many children die each year of
Diarrhea as of HIV/AIDS. A third of the worlds population is enduring some
form of water security. One in every Six (6) human beings has no access to
clean water within a kilometer of their homes. Half of all people in
developing countries have no access to proper water and sanitation, water is
critical for life and for livelihoods.
Yet billions of people suffer from poverty and lack of dignity and
opportunity because they have no access to this basic resources.
Water is also a crisis for women and children, because they bear the burden
of collecting water. In some places, women have to walk nearly 10 kilometers
to reach a water source. Girls drop out of school either because they have
to help fetch water or because there are not adequate sanitary facilities in
school toilets and in effect millions of school days are lost as a result.
Water is ultimately a shared resource, two-fifths of humanity lives in
rivers and lake basins that lies within two or more countries, tied together
in the web of interdependence, these societies can either suffer from
diseases related to contaminated water's because recent research has make it
known that most of these water sources are where public waste are dumped and
also livestock animals bath, drink and use a tool for vaccine in a village
or a town and is also used as a major source of drinking to another town or
village.
Access to water is mainly a crises for people in developing and some
developed countries. More than two-thirds of those without clean water
survive on less than $2 a day. Either poor people are excluded because of
lack of legal right to claim adequate water or they fall outside the scope
of limited water on infrastructure that serves largely the rich.
These crises of the world in increasingly killing numerous lives of poor
people and to stop the GLOPEC would lay emphasis on:
- Production of Good water for developing countries
- Production of Portable mineral water
- Setting up pip-borne and other water resource for the less privileged
- Improving water research by setting up a water research body's in
developing countries
- Utilizing the natural resource water available in most countries to
improve their economic growth and development.
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