WATER- SHOCKING FACTS

WATER- SHOCKING FACTS

 World water Day is celebrated on March 22. The United Nation’s General Assembly established the holiday in 1993: to bring awareness to the water issues facing the globe as well as advocating for improvements.To understand just how crucial the management of freshwater resources improves, read through these shocking factsprovided by UNICIF, WHO and the UN : 783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly 11% of the world's population.Over 2.5 times more people lack water than live in the United States.Around 700,000 children die every year from diarrhea, dysentery, and cholera caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation – that's almost 2,000 children a day.Clean water reduces the spread of diarrheal diseases .In the developing world as a whole, around 90% of sewage is discharged untreated into rivers, polluting them and affecting plant and aquatic life.Every year, around 60 million children in the developing world are born into households without access to sanitation.Children living in households with no toilet are twice as likely to get diarrhea and related illnesses as those with a toilet

2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation; this is about 35% of the world's population.Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hoursIntestinal worms infect about 10% of the population of the developing world. Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anemia and stunted growth.Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at a timeAt any one time, half of the developing world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from diarrheaThe integrated approach of providing water, sanitation and hygiene reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhea diseases by an average of 65%.More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.Sufficient water supplies would mean there is water available for washing and watering gardens, as well as drinking and cooking.

Prof. John Kurakar