HORN OF AFRICA: Water, Sanitation & Environment

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HORN OF AFRICA:
WATER, SANITATION & ENVIRONMENT

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Name: Noah Amin:
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Is the Horn of Africa land of plenty or one of scarcity?

IT IS ONE OF PLENTY!

But life is a daily struggle; hunger & infinite preventable diseases cause premature deaths. And as resources dwindle due to mismanagement, poverty prevails and people go to the unknown dying in the high seas or else go to refugees camps in their own lands!

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Did you know that dirty water can be a deadly drink? The reason is because Pathogens (disease causing microorganisms) inherently present in dirty waters cause diseases that may threaten your health.Just boil your water and you may well be safe!

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

W.A.S.H (Water & Sanitation) WSSCC
Facts & Figures:

1. Water is life and fortunately, the hydrosphere covers about 71% of the earth.

2. All water on earth, 97.47% is salt water, and of the remaining 2.53% fresh water, some 67% is either unreachable deep or frozen in the polar icecaps. The other 33% is mostly present as soil moisture. In the end, less than 1% of the world's fresh water is readily accessible for direct uses. This fraction is found in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and in underground sources shallow enough to be tapped at affordable cost.

3. Water is the basic need for all living things (human body is about 70%-- 85% water).

4. Today, freshwater is becoming the most critical natural resource issue facing humanity because as populations grow and water use rises, demand soars; yet the supply is finite.

5. Worldwide, careless use of water resources is harming the natural environment.

6. If all the earth's water fit in a gallon jug, available fresh water would equal just over a tablespoon.

7. It is estimated that around 1.1 billion people lacks access to adequate safe and around 2.2 billion people lack adequate sanitation.

8. A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water.

9. A person needs 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive.
10. The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day.

11. By 1995, 31 countries faced chronic freshwater shortages and by 2025, 48 countries are projected to face shortages affecting 2.8 billion people.

12. By 2025, nearly 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa will face water scarcity.

13. World’s Water (2002/2003) report says we must rethink the way we capture, distribute and use water if we are to meet water scarcity challenges.

14. Excessive demand of water uses reduces many rivers to mere and filthy trickle by the time they reach the sea or lake.

15. Today, groundwater provides drinking water to more than 1.5 billion people daily and to many more in times of drought and/or water scarcity.

16. Two thirds of the world’s population gets their water from public standpipes, wells, rivers, lakes, rainfall collected off roofs etc.

17. Over a billion people lack access to clean water in the developing world and 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation.

18. Pollution is a major problem and few countries have adequately safeguarded water from pollution.

19. The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day.

20. More than 200 million hours are spent each day by women and female children to collect water from distant, often polluted sources.

21. Approximately 60 to 70% of the rural population in the developing world have neither access to a safe and convenient source of water nor a satisfactory means of waste disposal.

22. Water systems fail at a rate of 50% or higher.

23. According to the UN, 20% of the world's population, in 30 countries, face water shortages. This number is expected to rise to 30% of the world's population in 50 countries in 2025.

24. Some of the world's largest cities, including Beijing, Buenos Aires, Dhaka, Lima, and Mexico City, depend heavily on groundwater for their water supply. It is unlikely that dependence on aquifers, which take many years to recharge, will be sustainable.

25. Poor people in the developing world pay on average 12 times more per liter of water than fellow citizens connected to municipal systems; these poverty-stricken people use less water, much of which is dirty and contaminated…. hence health problems

26. Every $1 invested in children, including money to improve access to clean water and sanitation, saved $7 in the cost of long-term public services… health etc.

27. But the Millennium Development Goals require that by 2015, nations reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.

28. 80% of diseases in the developing world are due to contaminated or inadequate water supplies;

29. A UNEP report puts water-related global death toll at 5.3 million yearly.

30. Preventable water-related diseases kill an estimated 10,000- 20,000 children each day
worldwide and about 100,000 mostly children in Somalia per year.

31. At any one time, an estimated half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.

32. The simple act of hand washing with soap/water can reduce diarrheal disease by 1/3rd.

33. One gram of an average healthy person’s feces contains 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,0
00 bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 1000 parasite eggs.

34. Improved water quality reduces childhood diarrhea by 15-20%;

35. But hygiene, through hand washing and safe food handling, reduces it by 35%, while safe feces disposal reduces it by 40%.

36. Often rural Africa women/girls walk about 6 kilometers daily just to haul water.

37. In Africa, women and girls spend 40 billion person-hours a year, hauling water.

38. The weight of water women in Africa carry is equivalent to 20 kilograms… hence health problems due to back injuries.

39. In the last 10 years, diarrhea killed more children than all people lost in armed conflict since World War II.

Noah [ 4:41 AM ]