Drinking Water Problems In The World: The Global Water Crisis

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

The water crisis is mainly affecting women and children in places like South Africa that don’t have good drinking water. The reason the water crisis affects the women and children a lot more is because they are the ones that have to go and get the water, and if they get sick or something happens where they can’t get water they won’t have water that day. One in ten people don 't have access to safe drinking water, that 's 663 million people in the world. Two times the population of the United States of America live without being able to get clean drinking water. Since January of 2015 the global water crisis has been the number one risk to society. Even though the water crisis is prevalent mainly in women in children it is still affecting people all over the world. Because most of the children spend most of their day getting water they don’t have time to go to school. About 160 million children get sick every year because they don’t have clean drinking water. Every ninety seconds a child dies because they didn’t have clean water? There is about one trillion dollars needed to fix the water crisis and there is only about 8 billion dollars a year donated for this cause. In the world about two billion people depend on wells for their clean drinking water. Almost all women and children spend at least 6 hours a day getting water for their families. One out of every ten people don’t have clean water. Some people in third world countries walk about three to four miles to get clean water to drink. The global water crisis is the number one cause of death in world. One out of three schools in the world do not have safe water and good sanitation. It has been proven that the farther the children have to walk to get water the less they will be educated. 160 million children in the world suffer from a water related disease like diarrhea, stunting, and chronic malnutrition. If people could fix the global water crisis then