Water, they are essential to our everyday life. We drink it, do the laundry with it, wash, swim, do the dishes, and possibly hundreds of more possibilities. However, when you go to oceans and lakes and just think about it, don't you have the feeling that the clean, safe water is decreasing every second?
According to the UN, clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world. However, due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, millions of people including children die every year from diseases associated with water.
Water scarcity, poor water quality, and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. At the current time, more than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. Drought in specific afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger, and malnutrition. Fortunately, there has been great progress made in the past decade regarding drinking sources and sanitation, whereby over 90% of the world’s population now has access to improved sources of drinking water.
To improve sanitation and access to drinking water, there needs to be increased investment in management of freshwater ecosystems and sanitation facilities on a local level in several developing countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, and South-Eastern Asia.
We use water like the resource is never going to disappear, but just like goal, oil, and natural gas, clean water is a resource we have to worry about and save. We can do this by not turning the faucet on when we are not in use of it, like using a cup when you are brushing your teeth. However, the most important thing will be to fulfill that request.
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