Taking action for World Water Day
OPS_admin | Mar 22, 2010 | Comments 0
There are still 900 million people who don’t have a safe water supply – and not always in the places you expect
This is a tale of two countries – one landlocked, with two-thirds of its harsh environment given over to desert and where rainfall is thought to be reducing; the other low lying, with millions of inhabitants squeezed onto narrow spits of land prone to severe monsoon flooding.
They may be continents apart, each with their own set of problems, but in both, girls miss out on school because they spend hours fetching water. Mothers give birth with no access to clean water. Children are dying from chronic diarrhoea. Livelihoods are put on hold through illness and hospital beds are full.
Water is life. That might sound hackneyed, but believe me there has never been a more potent truism – especially when today, World Water Day, there are still nearly 900 million people across the world who don’t have access to a safe water supply.
Full Story: Taking action for World Water Day | Barbara Frost | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
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