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Causes of Issues with Clean Water and Sanitation - Coggle Diagram
Causes of Issues with Clean Water and Sanitation
Stats
Today, nearly 800 million people lack basic access to clean water. Those who live in countries without clean water can fall sick, struggle to attend school regularly amidst regular trips to faraway water sources, and battle poverty.
One in three people live without sanitation. This is causing unnecessary disease and death.
lmost 60 percent of the population in Ethiopia lacks basic access to drinking water. Half of those without basic access are drinking from water that is more than likely or certainly contaminated, like hand-dug wells, unprotected natural springs, ponds, and more.
Globally, 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water service
Financial Battles
when the children do not attend school, they are not prepared to work outside of the home. Unable to earn an income, they remain in a cycle of poverty.
Second, some argue that the Clean Water Act’s costs have exceeded its benefits. These costs have exceeded $1 trillion in total (in 2014 dollars). That is more than $100 per person, per year.
Some 69% of equities listed globally face around $300 billion dollars of corporate value at risk, and billions more in stranded assets. The cost of water risks to business could be more than five times greater than the cost of acting now to address those risks, a gap that dramatically increases financial exposure.
Education
Access to clean water doubles the number of girls in the classroom, improves students' grades, and helps teachers.
To further this impact, TSP builds new classrooms and dormitories, funds school supplies, facilitates mentorship programs, and provides scholarships for girls in need.
With a water source that is safe and nearby, teachers at these schools no longer concern themselves with getting water before class and can now use that time to prepare their lessons and thoroughly cover curriculum.
Health
Drinking contaminated water can transmit diseases and back in 2017 nearly 1.6 million people died from diarrheal diseases
Legionnaires’ disease, contracted by inhaling contaminated water droplets, was discovered four decades ago following an outbreak at Philadelphia’s Bellevue Stratford Hotel during an American Legion convention. Since then, the number of cases has grown rapidly, especially in the last 20 years.
By looking at a handful of international studies of Legionella outbreaks, the committee determined what appears to be a point at which bacteria concentrations are high enough to trigger widespread infection. That threshold is roughly 50,000 colony forming units per liter of water.
Growth
With funding from the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation, in 2010 we expanded our borehole in Milimani by installing a submersible pump and generator to form a drip irrigation system. The project not only increased collective community income, but also improved food security and dietary diversity.
The Samburu Project collaborated with Give A Child Life Kenya (GACLK) to pilot a program introducing door-step gardens in 25 more well communities.
With access to clean water, many of our partner schools have started to plant small gardens to teach students about agriculture as well as provide them with much needed nutrition.