Facing the global water crisis in pictures
source: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090627/MULTIMEDIA/706269964/1284
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- JanforGore
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larrysnotes
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30 sec. under the light.,but I know we need more water.
- 2 years ago
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larrysnotes
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larrysnotes
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De-sal stations needs all over the world, 40 watt black light powered by PV easy to make and use, save alot of lives. Price $400, maybe with a price break.
- 2 years ago
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larrysnotes
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JanforGore
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The defining moment of the 21st Century will not be securing another planet for us to live on. It will be how we meet this challenge on Earth. Can we get beyond the backbiting to keeping our eye on the prize? Or will our continued political, social, and religious differences keep us from the moral imperative? This is no joke. Water is becoming a scarcer resource for many people around the globe through waste (mainly through agricultural irrigation,) pollution, climate change, and privitization. By our hand.
Humans cannot live without water. So it should follow logically that if humans cannot live without water and potable freshwater is becoming scarcer that this would certainly be a crisis that is a matter of life and death. And yet, this issue hardly gets the attention it deserves.
Please look at these pictures and realize that this is not about what is causing global warming/climate change and the petty political grudges that keep that debate from taking us to the necessary solutions to save this planet for ourselves and future generations. This is about seeing that future and visualizing what you know in your heart it should look like... and then making it happen.
The statistics are heartbreaking;
* 1.4 billion people live without clean drinking water.
* Two-fifths of the world’s population lacks access to proper sanitation.
* Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water.
* Half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people with an easily preventable waterborne disease.
* 80 percent of all sickness and disease worldwide is related to contaminated water, according to the World Health Organization.
* Dirty water kills more children than war, malaria, HIV/AIDS and traffic accidents combined.
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JanforGore