Water Crisis
On my desk I have several documents on the crisis in water and extract data from them which would worry even the most indifferent observers. Let’s review a few: 1 – “40% of the world population needed to collect water from wells, rivers, lakes or ponds (Water Wars-Drougth, flod, Folly and the Politics of Thirst: Water Wars: Drought, floods, nonsense and the politics of scarcity, written by Rainers Diana Ward). This means that about 2500 million human beings are deprived of the comfort of your tap and drinking water. Some members of affected families, usually women and children must walk long distances to fill the containers and transport them on their backs or shoulders. In the case of minors the time it could well serve to go to school or to enjoy activities of their age. For women is precious time that could well be dedicated to the upbringing of their children or economically productive activities. 2. In Africa 60% of the population lacks proper toilet which, according to health agencies can lead to contamination of water sources, soil and foods.
This anomaly is derived severe diarrheal diseases like cholera, deadly condition that the patient can lead to death within hours. 3. Early in the sixties the sea Arar was considered one of the four largest lakes in the world. Less than forty years later, in 2007, had only 10% of the original surface (Scientific American magazine) 4. Caribbean Trunk Road, linking to various departments of the Colombian Caribbean coast. In some sections, passing through several rivers whose source is located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Today, when passengers lean out the window of the vehicle, passing a bridge, you can see the bed of the river completely dry or with a weak stream of water that does not resemble anything like the force and the force they had made thirty years.
5. The world’s children are learning in their schools than the planet’s surface is covered with water in three parts. However, 97.5 of that water is salty and only 2.5 is sweet. Freshwater 99% are glaciers and underground water which we can deduce that we only have the remaining 1% to meet the needs of 7,000 million people and billions of living creatures of all species. 6. In some Latin American countries like Venezuela and parts of Colombia a bottle of purified water 500 cubic inches is more expensive than the same amount of oil, diesel fuel or gasoline. In the shops of the neighborhood in Colombia you can buy a bag with a pint of milk per thousand dollars (forty cents), two hundred dollars less than the same amount of water. As shown, water is vital and also scarce and expensive. And to think of it talks back to childhood and I give reason to those who preferred the water to the food. And they call on him for one simple reason: there will be no food without water, there is no food. And there will be no life.
San Jose Time