Why Accessing Potable Water is Challenging

 

 

Do you know that a person can live without food for more than a month,but a person can only live without water for approximately one week? The above picture is a mother  washing her child in the Niger River in the Ijaw village of Obojo November 1998 . The same river others drink from. This is
just the least of the things we do  to our water.  Pictures below would speak more.

This is what most people don't know!
Freshwater makes up a very small fraction of all water in the world. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.
Due to geography, climate, engineering, regulation, and competition for resources, some regions seem relatively flush with freshwater, while others face drought and debilitating pollution. In much of the developing world, clean water is either hard to come by or a commodity that requires laborious work or significant currency to obtain.
Why Pollute the Waters?
According to the United Nations, water use has grown to more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions as a result of use, growth, and climate change.

The challenge we face now is how to effectively conserve, manage, and distribute the water we have.