World Water Day
Currently, more than one in six people-894 million-lack a source of safe drinking water. Two and a half billion people, including almostone billion children, live without even basic sanitation. The combined effects of a lack of clean water and basic sanitation are approximately 1.6 million preventable deaths each year.
On World Water Day, to celebrate freshwater and the sustainable management of freshwater resources, we are featuring a guest post by Ashley Grimes, a Project Officer at Kopernik. Grimes describes the imperative for improved access to safe drinking water, as well as the need to mobilize behind the existing solutions to this challenge. She also details three innovative and simple technologies currently in use in the communities with which Kopernik partners.
Click here to read more. Then, follow these links to learn more about how you can get involved in World Water Day, the International Year of Water Cooperation, or read the eBriefing from the New York Academy of Sciences' "Water and Health: Global Health and Our Shared Responsibilities" conference.
Featured question:
In the spirit of World Water Day, David Sherman asks "do electronic monitors measuring the output and quality of hand pumps for water have a future in remote areas in Africa?"/.../
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