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Water conflicts

Water conflicts. Conflicts. Our conflict is happening all around the world People all around the world are dying from loss of water or different types of water diseases. 3.575 people die each year from water related diseases.

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Water conflicts

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  1. Water conflicts

  2. Conflicts • Our conflict is happening all around the world • People all around the world are dying from loss of water or different types of water diseases. • 3.575 people die each year from water related diseases. • More people die from water disease than any war with guns. Ground water is contaminated highly.

  3. conflicts • The people who are most affected by this conflict are people in Africa and lower Asia. • Every day more than 4400 children die around the world under the age of 5 from loss of fresh water.

  4. Human health • 1 in 6 people worldwide don’t have access to fresh drinking water. • In 2015 there is a predicament that 77% of the world will have sanitation(sewer systems). • every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related sickness.

  5. Human health • The majority of illnesses are caused by sewage in the water. • Most of the world cant take a hot shower, get clean water from the tap and use a flushable toilet. • Lack of sanitation is the worlds leading cause of infection.

  6. Water management • Women around the world spend 200 million hours a day collecting water. • This is equivalent to building 28 empire state buildings a day. • 1/10 of the global disease burden can be prevented by improving our water supply. • Only 10% of waste water is fully treated.

  7. Solutions • We can use desalination plants to filter water to make it safe drinking water. • Uses a lot of resources such as power and money. • Desalination plants lack in productivity though. • Desalination plants lower the salinity level of salt water. • Send water from Canada to places in Asia and Africa using planes. • Uses a lot of fuel which causes pollution. • Glacier water is safer drinking water than ground water in Africa. • Use less water at home so there is more for the world. • Difficult to adapt to using less water. • We could dig a trench or canyon and fill it with fresh water.

  8. websites • http://water.org/ • http://www.ifad.org/english/water/index.htm • http://www.bridgitwater.org/ • http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=25

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