Access to healthy water is important to me because that is one of the major resources that helps keep us alive. If we don't have healthy water then we can become ill let alone the way we obtain our food. It has to be clean. If the water isn't clean It could affect our health. In other countries such as in Senegal, Poor sanitation, water and hygiene have many other serious repercussions.Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.Children – and particularly girls – are denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Women are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water.farmers and wage earners are less productive due to illness, health systems are overwhelmed and national economies suffer. UNICEF works in more than 90 countries around the world to improve water supplies and sanitation facilities in schools and communities, and to promote safe hygiene practices. After learning about this issue. I'm thinking that we should be more appreciative of the water supply that we have and also attempting to maintain finding healthier ways to provide safe water for the future. I would like to find strategies or a present a major project on finding ways to provide safe water for our future leaders.
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Water is the basic necessity to survive, we can live without food for days, but without water we can not survive. In America we take for granted the fact that we have water coming out of our pipes and so easily accessed when other countries have to travel with jugs to even get the slightest amount of water.
ReplyDeleteIt is heart breaking to know that some children do not have access to the little things in life.
Stephanie (walden)