• 2.2 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
• Half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related illnesses.
• In the past 10 years, diarrhea has killed more children than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II.
• Despite the size of the problem, we have made little progress against it. There were only 181 million fewer people living without safe drinking water in rural settings in 2004 (899 million) vs. 1990 (1.08 billion)
• 50 percent of people on earth lack adequate sanitation. Another way to look at it: Nearly half of the world's population fails to receive the level of water services available 2,000 years ago to the citizens of ancient Rome.
Water is essential for living is really heart breaking to see how many children cant received the education they need or even dying because they don't have access to clean water or they need to help their families.
Water crisis is affecting the world and it is or responsibility to use it reasonable . As an educator and as a parent it is my responsibility to teach students the importance of maintaining our natural resources and to use them adequately .
For more information and facts you can access the following websites :
http://www.globalissues.org/article/601/water-and-development#Thescaleofthewaterproblem
http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts
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