Emergency: Water is. our world!
To reflect on the value of water is to reflect on the value of life. To talk about water is to talk about health, food, development, peace
The world’s great thirst
Every March 22, International Water Day is celebrated around the world to highlight that 2.2 billion people on Earth lack access to clean water.
How important is water for survival on this planet?
We all know the answer to this question: it is vital, and for a long time now we should be well aware that it is precious and should not be wasted, even though it is a guaranteed good for us in the West.
But we still do not realize enough how one lives if one does not have enough of it or none at all. One lives stuntedly and struggles every day to get some back.
Often, in order to get enough, one puts one’s own future and that of one’s loved ones at risk by going searching for hours and, when one finds it, one takes as much as one can without thinking about whether it is unhealthy or polluted.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to make access to available water resources equal for all, but it is essential to try to lend a hand in filling the jerry cans of the most fragile communities with water because water is life, health, food, nature, and it belongs to the whole world.
Can we do something to give these small communities access to water?
Let’s not miss the opportunity to do something concrete, however small, to help those in these situations.
Say water to say food, peace, health and development
Water is humanity’s most precious commodity. Without water literally our bodies cannot survive.
For those of us who live in the comfort of drinking water from taps, washing machines and dishwashers, it is hard to imagine how life becomes an ordeal without clean, potable water but, even today, this is the daily reality for 2.2 billion people living in these conditions.
They cannot put in place the most mundane daily hygiene practices; they cannot grow anything from the barren, barren earth.
They do not have enough to eat and become mangy and malnourished, nor can they raise animals that die by the hundreds from extreme drought. They get sick and the simplest diseases become deadly….
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