Water Crisis

Did you know that most poverty-affected Africans and Asians only live on as much water as a 90 second shower in their lifetime? After hearing that you should be glad for all the clean, fresh water you have because the only water the poor Africans and Asians have to drink is muddy and infected. This also causes lack of sanitation, and both of these issues combined cause thousands of deaths each year, but still those people still have to risk their lives to drink that water. If people have to risk their lives to drink that water I personally think they also deserve the water that we Americans drink since they are the ones who risk death to drink water that nobody would ever want to drink.

If you still don’t support my opinion, this fact will probably change your mind; one billion people lack access to clean water; a sad but true fact. People in poverty all over the world don’t have access to clean, safe water, but instead forced to instead drink the vile, disease-contaminated water which kills more than 30,000 people each day. Because of this issue, most Africans don’t even reach the age of 5. If they choose not to risk their lives for that water, they will die of thirst within a week. The world is also running out of water. By 2025 two out of three people will be living with water shortages and according to my calculations by around 2040-2050 only the wealthiest people will have water, if any at all. If we don’t change our ways, that is going to be the foreseeable outcome which will affect everybody alike, and possibly even extinction of the human race and many other animals/plants also. Along with those two issues, 2.2 million people die each year from lack of sanitation and water-related diseases, one for every fifteen seconds. If they had clean water like us they wouldn’t have to worry about sanitation problems and disease as much.

As you can probably tell by the numbers that is around 2 billion people suffering as you read this just because they don’t have access to clean water. Sad, isn’t it? If you want to conquer this issue you can take simple measures, such as shortening your showers, not leaving faucets running or dripping, and only use ice when you need it. You can also donate to organizations that help this issue, such as WaterAid, or you can invent ways to help those people and get everyone else to save water. So, go out and help save some lives; they need your help.

ZacharyS.