Statistics about the distribution of water were striking to me after seeing this graphic. With some of the members of Brute Labs and their friends embarking on a well drilling project in Ghana, the implications of their accomplishment resounded with me upon learning more about the future problems we may come to have with clean drinking water...and the particular plight of certain areas of our globe.
Some other stats to put the Well Done! project in perspective:
-Only forty-six percent of people in Africa have safe drinking water.
-The lack of water and the lack of hygiene is one of the biggest problems that many poor countries have encountered in progressing their way of living. The problem has reached such endemic proportions that 2.2 million deaths per annum occur from unsanitary water - ninety percent of these are children under the age of five.
-The main reason for poor access to safe water is the inability to finance and to adequately maintain the necessary infrastructure. Overpopulation and scarcity of water resources are contributing factors.
* I.A. Shiklomanov, Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources, Water International 25(1): 11-32 (2000)
Some other stats to put the Well Done! project in perspective:
-Only forty-six percent of people in Africa have safe drinking water.
-The lack of water and the lack of hygiene is one of the biggest problems that many poor countries have encountered in progressing their way of living. The problem has reached such endemic proportions that 2.2 million deaths per annum occur from unsanitary water - ninety percent of these are children under the age of five.
-The main reason for poor access to safe water is the inability to finance and to adequately maintain the necessary infrastructure. Overpopulation and scarcity of water resources are contributing factors.
* I.A. Shiklomanov, Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources, Water International 25(1): 11-32 (2000)
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