Water has become a very controversial issue in the United States and around the world. As populations increase and resources decrease, the way we use our resources and keep populations safe become more and more important. Throughout the world there are nearly 1.1 billion people who do not have access the clean drinking water. 5 Most of these 1.1 billion people are located in poor areas and do not have the financial means to build the infrastructures needed to provide water to the citizens of their country. 5 Drinking water is an essential part of our everyday life. People must have water to survive, but it must be clean and safe to consume.
Water privatization is putting water rights into private corporations. In developing countries privatization is acceptable but in developed countries water should be left to the public. In the developed countries like the US, France and Europe water is controlled by the public and private companies or corporations. Water remains a function of municipal government in 90% of cities around the US and Suez Environment and Veolia Water are the top two water companies.2 The consensus throughout the US is that water should be the publics responsibility because water in privately owned water facilities is more expensive and in some cases below standards and less desirable.6 People in the US want to keep their water in their hands because they feel better knowing that people like them control and consume the same water as they do and not people who do not. Putting water in the control of private companies has some less desirable effects on the public. These organizations have a profit motive with incentives that cause them to avoid conservation and efficiency measures since profits depend upon volu...
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"Water Pollution." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 5 May 2014.
Although water is all around, very little is drinkable. Six billion people live on earth and 1.1 billion in 31 countries are unable to access safe, clean drinking water. California has only 20 years of water supply left. Ironically, even the wettest place on earth, Cherrapunji, India, has often water shortages. After years of millions of people dying of thirst and disease, a corporate movement to find a solution to the water crisis has now swept the world. Water, a fleeting resource vital to every life, every single day of the year, is now being taken out of the governments control and becoming a commodity bought and sold by big business, a.k.a privatization.
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Water is one of the most vital components of human life. It is a necessity, a precious resource that humans need to live, that is taken for granted every day. There is no possible way for life to be sustained on Earth without water – it just cannot happen. The human body itself is composed of almost eighty percent water: almost 95 percent of the human brain is water. It is common knowledge that pure water is the best water – for humans, and for plants and animals. Regardless of this piece of knowledge, humans still find ways to disregard the sanctity of pure water and instead, pollute it. The right to water is not officially a human right. However, because “water is a basic need for human development, health, and well-being… it is an internationally accepted human right” (Thompson 3). Water contamination is an epidemic that is so common these days that it is no longer shocking to even hear that water is contaminated. Water contamination negatively effects water that is used on a daily basis. Continuing on in this way will eventually lead to contamination that will make the existence of clean water impossible.
Water is not a want but a necessary human right people need in order to survive. However, there are about 660 million people in the world that do not have access to safe water. There are also, an estimate of, 2.4 million people who do not have an accessible toilet. In order to get the water needed, many people have to find hours every day collecting water. Due to this education and commerce become harder and less of a priority, a community cannot thrive when there safe water is lacking. By providing safe water and sanitation for those who do not have it they believe they can achieve global equality and make a better and brighter future for
Inequalities in wealth and standards of living have always been quite different around the world. With development, this could change. Clean, accessible water is a marker for a town’s standard of living, and countries around the globe have different methods for providing water to their citizens. Water privatization grows more popular globally, and its negative effects can be evaluated in places like Bolivia. In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Water War gives depth to the world water crisis and how private ownership of water can harm citizens. From this war, we learn that water is destined to be redefined, the distribution of water has to be dealt with on a case by case basis, and the government needs to be compelled to keep themselves or other companies
Every year about 5 million people die from a water related crisis. Whether it be dirty water or no water at all. People who live in countries like the United States of America don 't think about the growing water problem. Most of them have all the water they could ever ask for, but that 's not the case in most countries around the world. 1.2 billion people in the world don 't have clean drinking water. In third world countries usually the woman and children are the ones left without any clean drinking water. Everyone has the right to have clean drinking water and sanitation. People all around the world take advantage of the water they get when people in other countries are dying because they have no clean drinking water. The global water crisis
Schneider, Paul. “Clear Progress: 25 Years of the Clean Water Act” A Forest Of Voices. Ed 2nd.
One child dies every 90 seconds somewhere in the world due to no water or contaminated water. I was shocked to hear this statistic and decided to research the reasons why water, the main fuel for life on Earth is in short supply. Seventy percent of the world’s water is in the ocean. Out of the remaining water only 3% is drinkable and 1% is available for drinking. As Brazil has more water than any other country in the world. Amazing, despite having considerable water reserves, Brazil is experiencing water shortages. I have selected Afghanistan as a country that has the world’s worst water supply, mainly due to ongoing war that has destroyed the countries infrastructure for fresh water and sanitation. It is predicted that by 2050 there will not be adequate water supplies for the world population.
Americans go to the sink knowing with a simple flip of the nosil, clean water will magically appear. It is often presumed that clean water is a given and it is never acknowledged that saving water in one country could evidently help another country's water...
Water is a basic necessity to every living creature big and small. Access to clean drinkable water is paramount to human and animal existence but whether it is pollution or poverty access to this basic need for some is limited. “For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.” According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization 783 million people in the world do not have access to clean water, with this many people not having access approximately 6 to 8 million people die each year from water related diseases and disasters. To put it into perspective, 1 out of every 5 deaths worldwide of a child under the age of 5 years old is because of a water related-disease.
Hays, Carl. "Water, Peace, And War: Confronting The Global Water Crisis." Booklist 109.16 (2013): 6. Academic Search Complete. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.
Earth has a population of more than 7 billion people; continents are separated by deep ocean masses and man made divisions of territories. Out of this extraordinary number of 7 billion 39% do not have access to clean drinking water ("Water.org"). The countries that are extraneously poor and marginalized are those in the African Bloc. The Democratic Republic of Congo as of 2010 was only able to supply 69% of its citizens with clean water (Shore). This is a result of the lack of access due to the irregularities and failures in the infrastructure of the country. This is a nation that has undergone constant military struggle and wars that have destroyed the advancements and the lives of many of its citizens. The state lacks the necessary funding to establish and organize management of water distribution and maintenance. In accordance with the UN Millennium Development Goals the government is to raise the access to water to 75% by 2015 (Shore).
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