SAFEWATERSOURCE.ORG
A COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING "A SAFE WATER RESOURCE"
YES WE CAN
AFRICA'S WATER CRISES.WATER IS A PRECIOUS RESOURCE, we often take for granted, is in critical shortage in
more than 80 countries worldwide and it will forever be in high demand as every living
being's survival depends on it. Out of the 27 countries fast reaching desertification, 17 are
in Africa, worst hit are the West African countries also known as the Sub-Saharan region.
West Africa has the lowest coverage of drinking and sanitation water
in the world and numbers are rising not falling, according to UNICEF
As populations have boomed through out the region, the absolute number of people
without drinking water increased from 124 million in 1990 to 157 million in 2004 and
the number without sanitation from 173 million to 225 million, according to UNICEF.
The mortality rate is so high that out every 1000 children born, 191 will die
before their 5th birthday. IT IS A TRAGEDY, that many more million will suffer
to servive through persistant and sanitation related diseases.
1 Billion People lack access to improved water supply.
2 Billion People lack access to improved sanitation.
To ensure our basic need, we need 20 to 50 liters of water, free from harmful
contaminants each and every day. In contrast, a child born in the developed
world consumes 30 to 50 times as much water as one in the undeveloped
world. The state of human health is inextricable linked to a range of water
related conditions; safe drinking water, adequate sanition, minimized burden
of water-related diseases and healthy freshwater ecosystems. Urgent improvements
in the ways in which water uses and sanitation management are needed to improve
progress towards meeting the millennium development goals, related to human health.
