A Social Injustice issue task

Our global issue is WATER!

Water is the essence of life; we use water in our day to day lives without it the human race would die out aswell as the millions of animals that inhabit the earth.  Water covers more then 70% of the worlds surface yet many billions of people die every year because they cant get access to fresh drinking water. Some people in the world don’t have easy access to water that is clean and healthy. Water is necessary for sanitation and consumption, without it, it is impossible to survive. Many people, mostly living in developing countries, only have access to dirty water which would be contaminated with germs and diseases.  If people are ill from drinking bad water, they aren’t able to attend work; school etc therefore those people would not be able to make money.

As water becomes scarcer, people begin to start arguments about who gets the water. It is necessary for water to be shared equally and resourcefully otherwise people will not be getting the water they need and or getting extremely sick from the water they are drinking. Natural disasters also affect our water systems in bad ways. Flooding can contaminate the drinking systems or a drought could wipe out the water altogether.

·         1 billion people don’t have safe drinking water

·         2.8 billion Don’t have good sanitation

·         1.8 million People die each year from diarrhoeal dieseses and 90% those people are children under the age of 5!

Australia’s government is trying to target certain problems including this water issue. Their aim is to reduce poverty and raise the living standards in developing countries. The government e:

1)         Water Governance-managing the sustainable use of water

2)         Delivery Systems-improving the efficiency of existing water systems while increasing the access to water and sanitation services.

We can donate to charities such as world vision and caritas who are doing tremendous work in 3^rd world countries to try and get water pumps in towns.

We can make people more aware of the challenges that the people that live in 3^rd world countries have to face every day.