World Water Day: Population of the world is increasing tremendously. It makes the shortage of the basic necessities. Even one million people lack of supply for drinking water which the basic need of the life and 2.6 million of those who lack access to sanitation but we must invest wisely and locally to make the supply of such necessities of life to the people.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, is celebrated as World Water Day. This is an occasion to celebrate water and its contribution to human life. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a report on this occasion to make the people know the benifits of investing in water and Sanitation service.
The basic aim of the report is grab the attention of the policy makers and invester by presenting the facts an figures about the shortage of clean drinking water supply and sanitation for the million of the people in the world.
So let us see the facts and figures: More than one million People who lack access to the safe drinking water are made to drink poluted water contains the germs and harmful chamical in it and caused to spread diseases. While 2.6 billion people who lived without basic sanitation is the basic cause of land, air, and water polution which in turn proved harmful for the same people. Approximately 10% burden of the world wide diseases can prevented by the betterment of safe drinking water supply and the sanitation system.
Without proper sanitation system untreated or insufficiently treated wastewater often reaches the resources of surface or under ground water, resulting these major resources of water become poluted. It affected the surface water ecosystems.
Providing access to clean drinking water and sanitation can reduce health risks and can free up time for education and other productive activities, as well as increasing the productivity of the labour force.
In times of budget austerity, sanitation and hygiene promotion can be an extremely efficient allocation of public resources. An earlier study, produced by the Disease Control Priorities Project, a World Bank-funded NGO examining health priorities in the developing countries, found that hygiene and sanitation promotion cost respectively $3 and $11 per DALY averted (disability adjusted life year – a measure of overall disease burden), compared to $922 per DALY for the provision of antiretroviral therapy against Aids for example).
SOURCE http://www.guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, March 22, 2011, is celebrated as World Water Day. This is an occasion to celebrate water and its contribution to human life. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a report on this occasion to make the people know the benifits of investing in water and Sanitation service.The basic aim of the report is grab the attention of the policy makers and invester by presenting the facts an figures about the shortage of clean drinking water supply and sanitation for the million of the people in the world.
So let us see the facts and figures: More than one million People who lack access to the safe drinking water are made to drink poluted water contains the germs and harmful chamical in it and caused to spread diseases. While 2.6 billion people who lived without basic sanitation is the basic cause of land, air, and water polution which in turn proved harmful for the same people. Approximately 10% burden of the world wide diseases can prevented by the betterment of safe drinking water supply and the sanitation system.
Without proper sanitation system untreated or insufficiently treated wastewater often reaches the resources of surface or under ground water, resulting these major resources of water become poluted. It affected the surface water ecosystems.
Providing access to clean drinking water and sanitation can reduce health risks and can free up time for education and other productive activities, as well as increasing the productivity of the labour force.
In times of budget austerity, sanitation and hygiene promotion can be an extremely efficient allocation of public resources. An earlier study, produced by the Disease Control Priorities Project, a World Bank-funded NGO examining health priorities in the developing countries, found that hygiene and sanitation promotion cost respectively $3 and $11 per DALY averted (disability adjusted life year – a measure of overall disease burden), compared to $922 per DALY for the provision of antiretroviral therapy against Aids for example).
SOURCE http://www.guardian.co.uk
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