Shouldn't everyone in the world have access to clean water?
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I think that everone in the world should have access to education,equal oportunities for work & studies, food and clean water. \n\nBut I know that it would remain dream for man kind forever.
665281
There is a great demand for water because India has a large population of people.  People need to consume a minimum amount of water to stay healthy.\n\nThere is a smaller supply of water for many geological and economic reasons.  In short, India's climate doesn't produce as much water as is needed given the technology and sophistication of their water distribution system.  Given an improvement in their economy (which is happening) that allows a better water distribution network or a change in climate (some argue this is happening) the supply may catch up to demand.\n\nGood luck.
736385
Although I have not read this book, I do understand the importance of water, and how little of it we really get. Also the quality of the water leaves something to be desired. Weather you drink bottled or tap, you really have to drink a lot, because of all the other things that are in it. Most people walk around "drinking from the toilet" (your bowel). Because when you do not drink enough water your body must get it from somewhere. And despite what most think, you CAN NOT get enough water from sodas, tea, and coffee. I found what I believe to be the best water in the world, it is a filtration system and they even have a sports bottle so you can have GOOD water where ever you go. You can check out the link below to see these things, and please drink more water no matter if it is bottle or tap.
21772
because people feel that everyone should be responsible for the environment, except them.  its the typical double standard.  its easier to preach than it is to actually follow your own advice.
515445
because water is a renewable resource. There is as much water on the earth today as there was when the earth formed.  The argument that not all of that water is as drinkable today as it was then is a weak one. The water from a treatment plant (post treatment) is usually cleaner than plain tapwater!
48656
i think MANY countries have bidets. but not necessarily everyone in the country. for example, i live in trinidad, and we HAVE a bidet in our house... but nobody uses it...
715250
Its another part of our evolving lives. Its easily cured however, just think about it. The ice caps melt and sea level rises. Fair enough, Our resovoirs are empty, so if we desalinate sea water and use it for washing etc, we will be using it as fast as the ice caps are losing it, Thus leaving a bit of fresh water to drink and stopping us all from drowning, i dont know why the politicians didnt think of it!!!
1111598
Well humans only inhabit 10% of the earth's surface and if everyone was to do it they would be able to hear people around them or if they were alone, just themselves, but if you didn't and you went somewhere like the sahara you probably wouldn't be able to hear it. The world is just too big i'm afraid, its like the fact that if the whole of China stamped their feet, there wouldn't be enough energy to boil a kettle.
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What we have here is a false dichotomy. There is no reason why we can't do BOTH. I see both those next door and those in the next continent as my neighbors. I care for both equally. Too often we value the lives of our own countrymen more than those who are not. I think that's wrong. There is absolutely no reason why anyone on this planet need go hungry. The earth produces FOUR TIMES the amount of food necessary to feed every individual on this planet. The fact that there are starving people anywhere can mostly be blamed on greed and misplaced priorities on the part of world governments. If we work to solve the problems of the poorest among the human population, we will simultaneously improve conditions for those in more affluent places like the USA, Britain, UAE, etc. The average person in these affluent countries throws away more nutritious food than the average person in a third world country receives as food. It's this sort of thing that we need to change in order to feed the hungry here and elsewhere.
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Though 78% of the earth are water bodies, as per a study 88% of the water available in the world is from seas and oceans and not potable. Desalination in some areas are done at a very high cost which is only 0.007%, so it is very negligible. Of the balance 12% or less 50 percent of all potable water is wasted or lost in the developing world; Pollution, with some 2 million tons of human excrement and an ever-increasing volume of untreated discharge from industry going into urban water supplies every day. The ground water table is also depleting very fast and getting contaminated or many areas have become dry. This accounts for +3%. The balance of 3 % are so is available now.\n\nIn the developing world, more than 1 billion people cannot get clean drinking water, and 1.7 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation facilities. The United Nations says that dirty water causes 80 percent of diseases in the developing world, and kills 10 million people annually.\n\nWATER CRISIS IS LIKELY TO STRIKE MOST DEVELOPING WORLD CITIES BY 2010. \n\nThus the position is very alarming and water conservation and Storm water harvesting are being implemented by many countries to save the situation.
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Why are you asking the same question over and over again? I checked your profile for recently asked questions, and your latest 1 has been asked 5 times in a row. I understand you excitement about fuel from water, because quite frankly I feel the same way, given that we are so close to no longer needing to rely on fossil and nuclear and living fuels. We are so close to being able to reverse the damage we have done to this beautiful planet. We are so close to eliminating poverty, malnutrition and disease. We are so close to world peace, harmony and unity. Our job now is to first apply it to our own lives, demonstrating by example that it works and it's safe and cheap, and then help others to do the same. Telling people that it is available will not be nearly as effective as showing them by driving down the street in a car that everyone can see is running on water. spread the word BY acting as an example. In the words of Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world!" Blessed Be.
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There are still 1.3 billion people with insufficient drinking water supplies, 13,000 people die each day from illnesses related to their drinking water. Even filtration provides little more than an expensive, even fatal, illusion. If the filter has been in place too long, which is hard to determine, bacteria flourishes and the danger is greater than ever. The costs for new filters must also be considered. This leads to a situation where users, particularly in poorer countries, risk their health and their lives due to lack of money. The UV sterilisation method, often over-estimated, requires a lot of maintenance and is often only able to sterilise. Suspended solids are often insufficient, chemicals and heavy metals are not removed.\n\nWater distillation, however, offers a perfect solution, as has been demonstrated by vapour compression and multi-stage condensing. Individual households on the other hand, particularly in the USA, make use of smaller distillation apparatus, in which drinking water is produced and connections also made to ice-cube machine.\nIn Germany, however, public opinion still views distilled water as a health risk. In fact the very opposite is the case. All minerals contained in water are inorganic and are only expelled from the body with great difficulty, if at all. The result is calcium deposits, stones in the bladder, gall-bladder and kidneys. Even expensive mineral water has minerals which are more often detrimental to health than beneficial, the remainder having a mostly homeopathic effect. In order to satisfy our mineral intake requirements from drinking water alone, we would have to drink some 2-3 cubic metres of water per day. In fact, we satisfy our mineral requirements with our food intake. The disadvantage of distillation up to now has been its relatively high energy consumption.\n\nSolar distillation plants have already been around for a number of decades, first being used in the 1950’s, mainly for the desalination of sea water. Large collecting areas supplied whole villages and industrial plants. These developments sadly came to a halt as a result of the enormously lowered prices for energy derived from oil and atomic power.\nSince 1985, Wilfried Rosendahl has been further developing solar distillation on Gran Canaria. His success is viewed as a sensation by experts. By using his process it is possible to produce drinking water economically, from small units as well as large ones. The price of water produced from a medium sized unit (>1 m³/d) is less than 3 Euro per cubic metre!\n\n \nThe principle is amazingly simple. Untreated water like sea water or contaminated water is added to an upper channel in controlled amounts. From there it drips over wicks and a black coloured absorber fleece through the collector. A part evaporates from the energy of the sun and the steam condenses under the glass cover. The condensation runs into the condensation channel. The remaining untreated water is collected in front of it and diverted out of the side of the collector. Both the untreated water channel and the condensation channel have supply points on the sides. Since there are no moving parts the whole system requires almost no maintenance.\n\nAlthough this seems simple today, the development process required solutions to numerous problems. A result was the use of stainless steel for all components that were in contact with water, use in sea water or brackish water required a special alloy. Different textiles were tested for their suitability as an absorber fleece. The important factor is good capillary characteristics with water content as low as possible, also resistance to rotting. A special dye was developed for the colouring. UV resistance is a must. Resistance to salt water and capillary characteristics are further requirements, coupled with non-toxicity, these proved to be a problem in the first months of operation, where many of the dyes tested emitted toxic fumes, which entered the drinking wa
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We need to learn how to conserve our natural resources in order to have them for the future world poplutaion.  Without these resources, such as water, humans cannot survive.
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The water in this planet can support all of it inhabitant but places like desert have difficulties in getting enough water. We need water because we use water as a medium to cool down.
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Water is as important to Fish as Air is to Us.\nAfter all thats the basic need for us to survive. So they need it all the time
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The world's leaders ignore global warming and poverty because the world's leaders are generally the wealthiest people in their countries, and therefore have a financial interest in business, and environmental protection policies are bad for industry, and in the poor staying poor (i.e. not redistributing their wealth to the poor).  The people don't overthrow them because the people are too busy watching Fox News to know what's going on in the world.
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How about something dealing with providing potable water or water purification... that's a heck of a subject and there should be tons of information about it on the Internet.  Besides... with the fact that drinkable water is becoming harder to obtain and the costs are going up to provide that commodity, water science will be a real 'Biggie' in the near future.