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Thread: World Water Day, March 22

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    Default World Water Day, March 22

    My friends at a non-profit NGO tell me that for a tiny fraction of the amount we spent invading Iraq, every human on the planet could have access to safe, clean drinking water.

    World Water Day 2019: Shocking Facts About Earth's Most Precious Resource

    Unsafe water kills more people than disasters and conflicts.


    March 22 is World Water Day, and the campaign is drawing attention to the difficulties some of the planet’s most vulnerable people face in accessing the precious resource.
    The United Nations launched World Water Day in 1993, designating safe access to water for all by 2030 as one of its Sustainable Development Goals.

    This year, the theme is “leaving no one behind.” The body hopes to raise awareness of and address the fact that marginalized individuals can have the most trouble finding safe water. That includes children, women, refugees, indigenous peoples and disabled people, according to the U.N. Those who have precarious living conditions can also suffer.

    The occasion brings to light some startling facts and statistics. The U.N. says as many as 2.1 billion people have no safe water at home. And almost two-thirds of the world’s people have problems finding water at least one month of the year. Of those who use unsafe water, some 80 percent live in rural areas.

    One in four schoolchildren doesn’t have drinking water at school and is forced to use unprotected sources or not drink water at all.

    If trends continue, an estimated 700 million people across the world could be forced to leave their homes by 2030 because of lack of access to water, the U.N. said.

    https://www.newsweek.com/world-water...source-1371140

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    Developed countries like the US will begin to appreciate fresh water as a resource when we can't get it anymore.

    They say the next great war will fought be over water not oil.
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    C'MON MAN!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Developed countries like the US will begin to appreciate fresh water as a resource when we can't get it anymore.

    They say the next great war will fought be over water not oil.
    A resource we certainly take for granted.

    There is a school of middle east scholars who maintain that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not at all about religion, culture, petty politics, or theology.
    It is about control of limited water and natural resources.

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