Rivers of gold: an examination of the water crisis
- Wednesday Apr 7,2010 05:05 PM
- By editor
- In News
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
Author: Victoria Cho
Originally published on TakePart.com
With nearly 80% of the world covered in water, why do so many people lack it?
Facts:
- Nearly 1 billion people lack reliable access to clean water
- Almost half of the people living in developing nations suffer at any time from health problems related to unclean water, such as cholera, hepatitis, and malaria.
- People in New York pay less for water than people in some of the world’s poorest nations.
- Millions of women and girls spend several hours every day fetching water.
- Together, unclean water and poor sanitation are the world’s second biggest killer of children (pneumonia is first).
Researchers featured in the film FLOW: For the Love of Water believe the access and contamination problems will lead to another massive extinction.
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