Where will you go without H2O?

Water is an essential resource for human beings.
In reality, we only have access to 0.0007 percent of the planet’s water, which is all we have to provide for over seven billion people across the world, and the lack of clean water is now an epidemic which affects close to two billion people every year.
Many people have to travel miles just to get a glass of fresh drinking water, and if they are unable to, then they have to make do with what they have, leading to waterborne diseases.
Lack of clean water can have a lot of detrimental effects, with waterborne diseases one of the leading causes of deaths in the world.
Water-related diseases affect more than one-and-a-half billion people each year, resulting in the death of a child every 90 seconds, with diarrhoea being the leading cause of death.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “25 percent to 30 percent of all hospital admissions are linked with waterborne bacterial and bloodsucking conditions, with 60 percent of infant deaths caused by water-borne infections.” Water has even been the cause of international disputes, as evidenced by the conflict between Pakistan and India.
Over 22 million people have no choice but to drink unhygienic dirty water, while more than two in five people don’t have access to decent toilets.
However, former (disqualified) premier of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, did take up the issue of dams with the World Bank but they could not come to a reasonable solution.
He asked WB to “play a ‘lead role’ in resolving the water disputes between Pakistan and India, by establishing a Court of Arbitration, but the international community, as well as the UNDP, holds Pakistan responsible for the dispute” This alone kills over a million people across the globe, every year.
According to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report, Pakistani authorities have failed to take effective action against this rising threat.

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