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aaron allan's List: global water Crisis
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Intro sites on The World Water Crisis.
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Dec 10, 10
The Water Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that's bringing relief to communities around the world who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water.
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We take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles.
And still, today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don't have access to it.
Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. It is the foundation of life, a basic human need. Yet today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.
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Dec 09, 10
This site is from the united nations, that are fighting the World Water crisis. This article provides info about water crisis all over the world, from Africa to China, the UN is there.
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Images
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Dec 09, 10
This image shows the stress levels of the world showing water crisis stress.
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Dec 09, 10
This image show a girl in africa. she is collecting water and has to walk 3 miles to her village.
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Dec 09, 10
This image is of a small town in Afganistan that shows two pictures. The on the left is when the town goes into water season. The right is durning the dry season.
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Dec 09, 10
This image is of a local watering hole in Austraila that has gone almost dry. This watering will not be refilled for another 5 months. The water left in the watering hole will have to be conserved.
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Videos applying info.
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Dec 09, 10
Maude Barlow is a water warrior, and is a proud fighter agenst the world water Crisis. She has a union called the water warriors who fight the distress of the world water crisis.
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Dec 09, 10
This video is a short video of the world water crisis, and a company supporting the water issues in 3rd world countrys.
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Articles
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Dec 10, 10
novations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a nonprofit organization that creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems, and works to scale up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors.
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Each year, 1.6 million children die from waterborne diseases such as diarrhea and cholera. Unsafe drinking water is a leading cause of diarrhea. Treating drinking water with dilute chlorine solution can cut child diarrhea by 20-40%. Despite extensive social marketing, adoption of point-of-use chlorine products sold in shops has remained low, and in most countries is below 15%.
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Dec 08, 10
This site belongs to the company Naturenpg, which sells articles about the World Water Crisis.
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More then one billion people in the world lack access to clean water, and things are getting worse. Over the next two decades, the average supply of water per person will drop by a third, possibly condemning millions of people to an avoidable premature death. In this free web focus, Nature presents an analysis of the global water crisis with a collection of news, features and interactive graphics.
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Dec 08, 10
The World Water Council is an international multi-stakeholder platform. It was established in 1996 on the initiative of renowned water specialists and international organizations, in response to an increasing concern about world water issues from the global community.
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While the world's population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth - coupled with industrialization and urbanization - will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.
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Dec 09, 10
Water.org is a world vision program that is active in helping the world fight the Water Crisis. This site provides a good, fun, article on the world water crisis.
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Nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation. The health and economic impacts are staggering.
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Statistics
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Dec 10, 10
About usWaterAid is an international non governmental organisation. Our mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities.
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- 884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)
- 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)
- 1.4 million children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to 160 infant school classrooms lost every single day to an entirely preventable public health crisis. (WHO/WaterAid)
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Dec 10, 10
These Statistics come from the huge world wild new company. BBC NEWS.
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Two-fifths of the world's people already face serious shortages, and water-borne diseases fill half its hospital beds.
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Dec 10, 10
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is a policy institute whose diverse Stockholm-based, internationally-oriented programmes and activities contribute to finding sustainable solutions to the world’s escalating water crisis. SIWI manages projects, synthesises research and publishes findings and recommendations on current and future water, environment, governance and human development issues. SIWI serves as a platform for knowledge sharing and networking between the scientific, business, policy and civil society communities. SIWI builds professional capacity and understanding of the links between water-society-environment-economy.
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Statistics tell stories, though often there is more to them than meets they eye. Scroll down to find a selection of interesting and thought-provoking statistics on global and regional statistics and trends in a number of key water-related areas. Contact the Communications Department to set up an interview with a SIWI expert who can help you learn more of the full story behind the statistics.
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