2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
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2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
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#4What are the country/world leaders doing to solve this?
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#5What are the country/world leaders doing to solve this?
Quite a lot, even if it is a long term project.
UNICEF reports that, "Between 2000 and 2022, 2.1 billion people gained access to safely managed drinking water and the number of people lacking at least basic drinking water services decreased from 1.2 billion to 703 million.” [O]
That’s not everyone but in about 20 years 2 billion more people got access to safely managed drinking water, and the amount of people who lacked basic drinking water dropped by half a billion in the same time. It won’t mean much to the 700 million who don’t have safe drinking water but progress is being made.
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#6What are the country/world leaders doing to solve this?
The "solution" from the perspective of the leading countries:
https://themuslimvibe.com/muslim-current-affairs-news/heres-...
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#7We also need to think about uses of water.
Water is used for drinking (~2 liters/day)... Contamination here really matters.
Waker is used for cooking (~20 liters per day). Contamination here matters somewhat, since some forms of pollutants will be rendered harmless by cooking.
Water is used for washing (~200 liters per day). Contamination here matters a little too, because washing water can touch something which gets eaten etc.
Water is used for farming (~2000 liters per day/person fed). Contamination here barely matters - but some things can still make it into foodstuffs.
Providing small quantities of clean water is far cheaper than providing large amounts.
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#8This a truly big problem that has been going surfaced for decades, and I honestly have become split...
On one side, France in particular, but many other "developed" nations as well have stepped in to build the infrastructure and provide clean water to places where it was problematic.
Only to monopolize water distribution one way or the other, resulting in people not able to afford the water at the end, while losing their previous precarious access to dirty but natural sources as well.
Nestle, Danone are the poster child of these predatory moves.
On the other side, there few places poorer countries can turn to. Japan might be one, but they suck at diplomacy. Then there is China, and they need to be willing to dance.
And places lacking water tend to lack education and political freedom as well.
I'd want to hold higher hopes, but it only ever progresses so slowly, as the incentives are basically stacked against real progress.
Has anyone more than small scale feel good stories or "promising advancements". Do we have things that really improved at scale in the last ten or twenty years ?
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#9What are the country/world leaders doing to solve this?
Quite a lot, even if it is a long term project. UNICEF reports that, "Between 2000 and 2022, 2.1 billion people gained access to safely managed drinking water and the number of people lacking at least basic drinking water services decreased from 1.2 billion to 703 million.” [O] That’s not everyone but in about 20 years 2 billion more people got access to safely managed drinking water, and the amount of people who lac…
Sadly with the end of USAID a lot of this progress will be lost.
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#10We also need to think about uses of water. Water is used for drinking (~2 liters/day)... Contamination here really matters. Waker is used for cooking (~20 liters per day). Contamination here matters somewhat, since some forms of pollutants will be rendered harmless by cooking. Water is used for washing (~200 liters per day). Contamination here matters a little too, because washing water can touch something which gets…
I noticed that in some countries tap water isn't safe for drinking but good enough for cooking; and everyone buys large plastic 40lb jugs of water for drinking. How much more cost effective would it be to adopt such a system as opposed to safe drinkable tap water?