Lack of access to clean water
Lack of access to clean water
Nature: What is wrong?
Fresh water is not distributed evenly throughout the world and because of that reason it has become a global issue. Only 2.5 % of the planets water is fresh water and most is found in snow and ice. Fresh water is becoming scarce especially for countries that experience low precipitation and low evapotranspiration. Droughts and floods also affect the availability of fresh water.
The world population is becoming denser and rapid population growth has contributed to the increasing pressure and increasing requirement for fresh water. Water pollution is another concern since it decreases the amount of fresh water and causes human sickness disease and death.
Who is impacted?
Since developed countries tend to overuse water supplies water would become scarce and everyone will lack access to water in the long run. Although the developing countries have access to water it isn’t necessarily clean and therefore they are more exposed to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery which millions of people die each year from. They are preventable but it is expensive to build dams or use technology to improve water quality and many developing countries can’t afford all of this and suffer the consequences of drinking polluted water. Spatial dimension: where is the issue located?
Why is it a problem?
Lack of access to clean water is a major problem for these countries it is a human, logistics, funding and efficiency issue. Wealthy countries can afford to build dams or use technology to improve water quality. But these developing countries do not have the wealth to afford all of this or the education to understand about sanitation of water. One third of the people on the earth lack adequate sanitation, which is an immense amount of considering the deaths to come along with unhygienic contaminated water.
Ecological dimension: How people have caused
Nature: What is wrong?
Fresh water is not distributed evenly throughout the world and because of that reason it has become a global issue. Only 2.5 % of the planets water is fresh water and most is found in snow and ice. Fresh water is becoming scarce especially for countries that experience low precipitation and low evapotranspiration. Droughts and floods also affect the availability of fresh water.
The world population is becoming denser and rapid population growth has contributed to the increasing pressure and increasing requirement for fresh water. Water pollution is another concern since it decreases the amount of fresh water and causes human sickness disease and death.
Who is impacted?
Since developed countries tend to overuse water supplies water would become scarce and everyone will lack access to water in the long run. Although the developing countries have access to water it isn’t necessarily clean and therefore they are more exposed to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery which millions of people die each year from. They are preventable but it is expensive to build dams or use technology to improve water quality and many developing countries can’t afford all of this and suffer the consequences of drinking polluted water. Spatial dimension: where is the issue located?
Why is it a problem?
Lack of access to clean water is a major problem for these countries it is a human, logistics, funding and efficiency issue. Wealthy countries can afford to build dams or use technology to improve water quality. But these developing countries do not have the wealth to afford all of this or the education to understand about sanitation of water. One third of the people on the earth lack adequate sanitation, which is an immense amount of considering the deaths to come along with unhygienic contaminated water.
Ecological dimension: How people have caused