Hey everybody! Together we’re gonna kick off World Water Weekend here at OH, FOR THE LOVE OF SCIENCE!
Perhaps you have heard of World Water Day, which occurs March 22nd every year as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Well, I’ve decided that this issue is so important that it deserves your attention for the entire weekend!
Today I want as many people as possible to help out an organization called ONE DROP, founded by Guy Laliberté (who also founded Cirque du Soleil). ONE DROP’s mission is “water for one, water for all”, or to fight against poverty by providing access to water and raising awareness among individuals and communities about the need for mobilization in order to make safe water accessible to all, in sufficient quantity, today and tomorrow.
Guy Laliberté presents The ONE DROP Foundation from One Drop Foundation on Vimeo.
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“Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.”, Lord Byron.
Water is the source of all life on earth. Water is essential for earth itself, and for our lives, for bodily intake, and sanitation. As the veins and heart make us alive, rivers and oceans are the arteries and heart of earth. The earth consists of 70% water, and of this 2,5% is fresh water. In a global perspective this points to that fresh water is a scarcity problem.
Water is a prerequisite for economic growth and social development and a better administration and use of water is a prerequisite for the eradication of poverty. Due to the fact that the water we have is very unevenly distributed this have been and is a strong contributor to conflicts throughout history. Scarcity of water leads to scarcity conflicts, illness and death.
The countries that are exposed for these conflicts are where water is scarce, and they are dependent on other countries’ rivers. Only one third of development countries have access to clean water, with a result of 30000 deaths every day. 2 million people die per year of water diseases.
A result, the water crisis could be the 6th mass distinction. One of the UN millennium goals is to reduce the amount of people without access to clean water by half within 2015. I will now examine hurdles for this goal, and solutions for humanity.
The above is an extract from Line Løvåsens article “March 22: The International Day of Water”. If you would like to read more, please visit: http://www.humanrightsdefence.org
Yours sincerely,
Tomas Eric Nordlander
Human Rights Defence