Approximately 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water.. No matter how much food and health care is given to aid the poor in developing countries, it is simply a band-aid if they still drink contaminated water….The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to unclean water and poor sanitation dwarf the casualties associated with violent conflict.
Earlier seen as a problem of only the poorest, the water crisis is increasingly affecting the wealthier nations, economic riches being no insurance against it. For years, we have misused our most important resource – water.
In Antarctic sea, penguins will face extinction due to the water scarcity. Our natural beauty will be hampered due to depletion of water. We humans have a notion that all that is there in this world belongs to us and we have all the right to squander its natural resources, but what we think is ours, does belong to other species as well. So while we intelligently mess with the hydrological cycle and send eco-system into a tizzy, we ignorantly rob animals of their water and hence their lives.
One thing that people need to understand is that each one of us can help and save this country and the world. Each soul can make a difference, just like every drop in the ocean makes a difference. As Mother Teresa had said, “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” If each of us recognise, realise and respect water as our most precious resource ever, we can mirror the ocean in all its forceful resilience. And we might just be able to placate the global water crisis, if not completely vanquish it. It shouldn’t be too late when we realise our mistake. Today, through the means of right technology and careful water usage, we can help combat water scarcity in near future.
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