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Water Kills! OMS/WHO new study on drinking Water published!
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by Paschen | June 27, 2008 at 09:33 pm
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By, Uwe Paschen.
The OMS or WHO, the World Heath Organisation Published it's annual report this week saying that Water, Drinking Water that is. Is of a major concern World Wide!
The Report states that 10% of all Illnesses and as much as 6% of all Death are and can be directly linked to Drinking Water being either contaminated by Bacteria, Viruses, or Toxic Agent such as Dioxin. Making the Water improper for Human or Animal Consumption.
Children under 14 years of age make up 22% of all the victims, making them the most vulnerable. In the 35 countries the most affected, up to 15% of the illnesses could be avoided all together by simply improving the quality of the Water! As Annette Pruss-Ustun, Main author of the Study does state!
According to the Study, each 100 Yen invested into improving Water Quality would result in generating 800 Yen in savings for treatment and Cures of illnesses caused by bad water.
In the Rich Western Countries only 1% of the death can be attributed to Water where as in the Poor countries this number would be as much as 24% of all death and as much as 10% in Emerging Countries!
Well, the G8 summit is coming up in Japan this time and maybe our great leaders will invest in Humanity rather than into War this time!
Water is the Gold of the Future, through out the World Drinking Water is becoming a major problem due to Pollution, Contaminations of all sorts and especially due to Climate Changes. Water, Drinking water that is, will be scares in the very near future and this not only in the so called developing World, no the Industrial World or Western Powers will be just as affected as every one else and the future wars will most likely not be over Oil, but rather over drinking Water!
Now you may say we can build plants and machines that can fix that! Not really as easy as you may think and it would coast a real fortune as well that even the rich would have trouble financing! This a serious matter with very serious implications in the short a well as in the long run for all Humans and Other life Forms all over the World!
You can find the details of the study on the UN web page and you may find a lot more good Information there as well worth publishing and thinking about!
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at 01:50 on June 28th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:21 on June 28th, 2008
Clean water is one of the biggest problems in the developing world, and Western nations aren't always on top of it, either.
at 07:52 on June 28th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff. ...'Water is Life"... in Saudi Arabia, a barrel of oil, is two times cheaper than a barell of dringking water.
at 09:07 on June 28th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 11:37 on June 28th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff. It's so important to get the message out there. In some of our farming communities much of the ground water has been compromised by the overuse of nitrogen based fertilizers. Nitrates in the drinking water make it dangerous for infants.
at 22:13 on June 28th, 2008
Thank you all for supporitng this story and for your input here!
Yes Jordan I do agree with your statement, never the less due to the melting of the glaciers in an extraordanary fast manner our stock of good Water is being washed away rather fast, this is a big problem for Asia, Europe and even the Americas Mountain Chains. Further due to extensive pollution the Water resevoire of the Great Lakes in North America and Europe are being rendered useless, in the Case of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie the Pollution is such that Some species of Fish can not longer survive due in part to pollution and also the invasion of foreign organism such as the Zebra mussel! Some lakes are killed by Allgies that grow due to extensive Phosphor and Nitrogen Pollution from Haushold Cleaners and Agricultural Chemicals, used also in some other industries!
The Price of Water is already going up as danesller0127 is saying in his comment! In Europe the price for a cubic metre of good water is now at over 5 Euros about $8 US, And it is still going up, on top comes a charge of about 6 Euros about $10 US per cubic meter of used water.
Barbara McPherson you are correct and thank you for bringing it up, the Pullution of ground water, beig usually assumend to be drinking water as well is extensive, due to agriculture, yet also industrial use of chemicals and inproper disposing of those as well as housholds cleaner that make up an large amount of the contamination as well and could easelly be replaced with less agressive and less harmful cleaners!
Thank you all for your input and support, I do appreciate it very much! I hope to hear from you again! This is an important topic that needs to be dough with and solutions need to be fund and implemented fast!
at 02:00 on July 8th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff. Yes, it's going to be a huge problem. We take it so much for granted in the West.
Gerry
at 02:06 on July 8th, 2008
Thank you for the Flag! I do appreciate it very much! Judging by the G8 summit this week in Hokkaido, our leaders do not see to get the message though! They are to busy tasting the latest Caviar and Champagne wile enjoying the view of lake Toya!
at 02:45 on July 8th, 2008
Yeah! I was going to mention the food and drink too but I couldn't spell caviar! Something that really interests me is the problem of desertification and Ive trawled the Internet: there are loads of reports saying what a problem it is going to be but precious little about any projects being tried out. The BBC did an excellent programme on projects in China a while ago. But that's about it. The problem really hit me when I experienced the sandstorms of The Gambia!
Gerry
at 02:51 on July 8th, 2008
Decertification and agriculture has become my field of expertise over the past 20 some years! It is a largely Man made problem, that by it self could easely be solved with the 600 Billion Dollar that went into the Iraq war by now!
at 09:17 on July 8th, 2008
Hi Paschen, can you explain your Desertification stop program, what would you do with 600 bn $ ? Sounds interesting
Water needs education to be understood. Many developping countries like Brazil prefer to buy a Sat Tv instead of sewage treatment of toilett water, just drill and pump the same water as drinking water does not work. Stays the question of overpopulation overpollution control. If not adressed waterborn deseases will kill half of the world population with human density provoking super bugs spreading with the speed of airliners.
at 19:13 on July 8th, 2008
Thank you for the comment SOLARLIFE and your support here! I grow up in the dessert and as my father did before me, have always looked for ways to make the dessert green again! In North America, modern Agriculture is causing a new form of dessertification due to mono cultures, chemical use in excess and bad management as well as depletion of the ground water and ever lovering grownd water levels with more and more drainage systems! In Niger under the Government of Seiny Counche, my Father was allowed to make an experiment in the sahara desert that revelled that domestic animals and Humans are the main cause of desertification, climate is only a secondary cause and wild life has an impact as well, however does seem to regulate it self rather well with out human intervention! Long story short, we could stop desertification in Africa and the middle east by investing hevelly in education and menagement, as well as new food habits. The other investment would be to bring water levels back up by changing irigations mettods and reducing salinification! Reduction in Population growth is essecial as well. It is a long and complex topic that can not be fully described in one comment. The Problem started over 3500 years ago, with the great or not so great empires of the Eyptian, Persian, Greek, Romans, Germans, Ottomans, Spanish, French and English.... None helped and all contributed to make the problem worth since this area has been rather fragile for some 7000 years now!
We need to work with nature not nature with us, we need to adapt to nature not the other way around! We so also need to think globally and not locally, for our local actions or inactions have global concequencess! The Pollution in Europe does affect the climat in Africa and causes more drauweds in the Sahara zone! I would like to talk about this in more details and hope we will be able to soon!
at 03:00 on July 8th, 2008
Paschen, Great story and comments posted. I had always thought that the glaciers would provide some good quality water, rather then the opposite result. Can anyone explain this for me. Thanks.
at 19:16 on July 8th, 2008
Thank you for the flag and your input, I do appreciate it very much! Yes, the Glaciers!!
I to would like an anther and it seems that greed and selfishness as well as carelessness may be the main culprits here!
at 02:39 on July 9th, 2008
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at 02:47 on July 9th, 2008
Thank you for the Info, I will look it up, Anonymous!
at 02:50 on July 9th, 2008
Thank you most Kindly! I will look into it ASAP!
at 10:07 on July 24th, 2008
Great story. It amazes me that third world countries have this huge problem, but developed countries with vast resources also have this problem in the form of nitrates and fertilizer runoff entering waterways. This is a world wide problem that has no borders. What we need now is worldwide solutions and education.
at 18:57 on July 24th, 2008
Very true, the Nitrate and Phosphor is how ever only the tip of the Ice berg that causes water contamination, Medication residue as well as hormones used in birth control do cause a problem just as great and very difficult to filter out before they reach the water ways!
Thank you for your comment here and your Flag, I do appreciate it!
at 05:37 on August 5th, 2008
One of the things about the water crisis that is striking: it is made entirely through the actions of us humans (well of course, animals can aggravate the problems but it is we who really do the damage). Holding on to the good stuff: some rivers are being cleaned up (the Thames even has salmon in it now). But we have done some quite atrocious damage too. And dirty water, as someone said, cannot really be cleaned.
at 06:17 on August 5th, 2008
You are making a good point here Gerry! I read the reports of the Thames River and the Rhine River clean up that took over 30 years to get it back into a viable river and yet still there is a lot of very toxic sediments down there that all hope wont get disturbed for it would cause a new disaster!
The Rhine for instance was almost clean again after great efforts and lots of money and new regulations against pollution in the 1980 to the point that fish started reappearing.
Then sandos happened the great chemical accident in Switzerland due to a breach of the environmental laws and safeguards that Sandos did not follow in order to save money!
The hole river from Switzerland to the Nether Lands, passing France, and Germany, died again and it took another 20 years to get it back and lots of money again! Sandos became Monsanto the great GMO Chemical Lab in the US today!
at 12:11 on September 30th, 2008
One problem with the Thames is, as the water-table rises higher each year, it's bringing with it all the junk from when there was heavy industry along the river, which now risks entering and pllluting the domestic water system. We've only just got the river back to health and already that health is faltering!
at 09:06 on August 19th, 2008
Well, duh! development dudes. I know you guys are paid vast amounts of cash, but if you spend less time going to conferences and read a book about how the biggest increase in human health and productivity occured when people had access to clean water, then you would make it priority one. But that wouldn't offer enough chaos and you really benefit from human misery. Sad.
at 14:26 on August 19th, 2008
Paschen, good story. In Baja California Sur, sea water is filtrating into our water wells. Some of them are drying and the cities are growing.
at 21:54 on August 19th, 2008
I am familiar with the problem in your area aptgarcia, ant the solutions are not simple in terms of Political and Social will, being the main obstacle here! However they are ways to address the problem successfully, it does require some out of the box thinking though!
Thank you for the read, Flag and comment here! I do appreciate it!
at 15:55 on August 19th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff. I am glad to be more informed, for years I thought that bottled water was the solution to our problem in the west, until I learned about the toxin called Dioxin, Thanks!!
at 22:00 on August 19th, 2008
Thank you Resonant Earth for your comment, read and Flag here, I do appreciate it!
Yes, Bottle water is certainly not the solution, only the plastic bottles do cause a new environmental hazard by them self! And it does not solve the water quality problem nor the shortage of drinking Water! We need a new or rather old approach in order to be able to solve the problem we need to change our ways of life and end our consumer society!
Change into a sustainable society instead!
at 04:35 on August 20th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:14 on August 20th, 2008
Thank you Emilio, for comment, Read ad Flag here, I do appreciate it!
at 14:50 on August 20th, 2008
Paschen, I like this story. It's good stuff.