Water Pollution

USnews.com finds that India is an area where a large majority of the population do not have access to clean water. Indians have to spend 62 more cents than the British for their water, which is estimated to be 20 percent of their average income. These are the circumstances that they have to live with in, where the only alternative is to use contaminated water. Those who choose to do so often face a risk of dying from an illness, more often from diarrhea. Exposure to dirty water accounts for the death of 140,000 kids in India.

Main Point: Third world countries lack accessibility to clean water exposing them to disease and harmful toxins that result in 2.4 million deaths annually (Bartram, 2010).

Water pollution in Tennessee is a major environmental issue. Polluted rivers and streams are major problems because the water inside of them is supposed to be a clean source of water, but sadly that’s not the case. In order to stop this, we have to keep moving forward to find a solution.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of Religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech," this Amendment is the most important part of the constitution. Without free speech, we the people of the United States would not be able to speak openly and freely about issues that affect our everyday life.

A problem that affects the daily life of more than a hundred million people is inadequate sanitation and a lack of proper sanitation facilities. For example, only 87% of Indians in urban areas have access to a sanitized latrine, while only 33% of Indians in rural areas have access to a toilet, (The Guardian). This statistic is alarming, as it increases the susceptibility to diseases such as

Being unhealthy and sick in an impoverished country is a terrible experience! Unfortunately, every day more and more of the population becomes ill from dangerous bacteria residing in unfresh water. Every sip of dirty

Clean water is essential to our basic needs as human beings and has been acknowledged as a basic human right according to the UN as of July 28, 2010. Still, 1 in 9 (782 million) people don’t have access to clean water, 1 in 3 (2.5 billion) don’t have access to adequate sanitation which results in the spread of often fatal and preventable disease. In a world where 2 in 5 people own a smartphone, it’s easy to forget that for some people even the most basic necessities are hard to come by. Approximately 3.5 million people die every year due to inadequate water supplies. Access to sanitation and safe drinking water could save the lives of 1.5 million children each year.

This report seeks to improve access to water and sanitation in developing countries in order to achieve better public health and save lives, also the role of local communities to improve water and sanitation. The standard of water and sanitation in developing countries is still a far cry from adequate. There are obstacles that delay the improvements of the topic mentioned above: limited amount of investment, lack of political will, and difficulty of maintaining the water and sanitation services.

Clean water is a large contributor to sanitation. Without clean water, you cannot have proper excrement disposal systems. 2.3 billion people do not have access to toilets or

In many rural areas in India, women have to walk a distance of about 2.5 kilometers to reach up to the source of water. Women reach home carrying heavy pots, not to rest but to do other household chores of cooking, cleaning, caring of children and looking after livestock, and in the evening fetching water. Thus, a rural woman’s life has become sheer drudgery for lack of water. There are many key causes of the water crisis that are due to: a rapid growth

One of the causes of water scarcity according to J, Rinkesh, a writer in conserve-energy-future.com, “Water overuse is a huge issue that a lot of people are dealing with. It may be overused on people, animals, land, or any other number of things. It may also be used for recreational activities without any care about the effects that it may have on the world around them.”. Also, the same writer talked about the effects. Rinkesh states, “Without access to clean water, there is no way to clean food, dishes, or people. When people are not given access to proper sanitation, disease ends up becoming much more of an issue than it would have been otherwise.” Meanwhile, Rinkesh pointed one solution that might help people. He says, “There are organizations located all over the world that are looking to bring clean water to areas that don’t have it.”

Safe drinking-water is essential for healthy life, and United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking-water as a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life [1]. Moreover, the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene for health and development has been reflected in the outcomes of a series of international policy forums [1]. These have also included health and water-oriented conferences, but most importantly in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted by the General Assembly of the UN in 2000. The UN General Assembly declared the period from 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life” [1]. Access to safe drinking-water is important as a health and development issue at national, regional and local levels. Bangladesh, a developing country from South Asian (SA) region also takes several steps for ensuring sanitation and safe drinking water facilities among the people. As a result, Bangladesh has made great progress in this sector. The government also claimed that it has achieved the MDG indicator of ensuring safe drinking water for 85% people of the country. According to different demographic and health surveys, the percentage of using improved sources of drinking water is about 98% (reported in the latest two surveys Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) 2012-13 and Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2014) [2,3]. But, this achievement statistics are overlooking the shortcomings. The MICS

Within this assignment I will be providing an overview of the main health issues that are still affecting India today. I will examine their historical trends and predict the country’s health future in context of global health and social issues. India is dealing with many on-going health issues, one of those being Cholera. It began in the Ganges Delta in South Asia and began to spread, flourishing in poor areas, mainly in the slums (Cholera and the Thames, 2014). Phillips (1990) states that, those that live in these particular areas are faced with the daily challenges of the sewages overflowing, being overcrowded with people and the inadequate availability to have access to clean water. This puts many people at a greater risk of contracting a disease such as Cholera. Although Cholera is water borne and a communicable disease it is also preventable. This disease can cause people to have severe diarrhoea which the body then loses a mass amount of fluids, people then become exceedingly dehydrated which can lead to death. Vibrio cholera or V. Cholera is the bacteria found in Cholera infecting the intestines and causing diarrhoea (Cholera and the Thames, 2014). In 2014, The World Health Organisation (WHO) updated their fact sheet with key facts about Cholera. It was estimated yearly, that about 3 to 5 million people worldwide were affected by Cholera and over 100,000 cases result in death. Cholera is a disease which can affect anyone, like many other colds, viruses, and diseases

According to UN estimate over 20 million people are without access to safe water supply and over 100 million people without safe sanitation facilities is the present (2011) basic services scenario in the country. Clearly, the task at hand is challenging by any standard. With almost 7 million people being added to urban India every year, the situation is likely to get worse if the problem of basic services is not addressed immediately. Efforts are being made to provide basic services to those deprived of them, yet much more needs to be done to improve the quality of life in urban India.

Human rights to clean water have been on the international scene for quite some time. It has been brought to the attention of the United Nations general assembly, as well as been recognized in a UN resolution in 2010. It seems that the problem of getting clean, drinkable water to population centers has been met and dealt with. Unfortunately, there is still a massive problem in one of the world’s most populated countries, India. It is claimed in the Wall Street Journal that seventy-five million people in India are without clean, safe water on a day-to-day bases . The question I propose is, what can the Government of India as well as the United Nations due to help diminish this number to zero and what steps should be taken in order to ensure these seventy-five million people have access to clean drinkable water as quickly as possible. The reason this question is so important is very simple, as per United Nations resolution 64/292, it is a basic human right to have access to clean safe drinking water and sanitation. In this regard a case could be made against India that the government is in violation of basic human rights by not doing enough to get water to the seventy-five million people without it. In this document I will first examine the reasons behind the lack of access due to the curse of the postcolonial state, followed by examining where India is losing a large amounts of water at the hands of privatization. Drawing on these two problems, I will then propose a solution