How to Provide Clean Water to the World
Have you ever had a glass of water straight from the tap and felt thankful for the infrastructure and regulations guaranteeing that refreshing, life-sustaining drink? Do you often wonder what you would do if that water weren’t safe?
Unfortunately, contaminated water is a reality for many people, here and abroad.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), throughout the world, 663 million people (about 9% of the world) rely on unimproved water sources, including 159 million dependent on surface water.
Pure Water is Hard to Find
Water scarcity affects 1 in 3 people in the African Region and is getting worse with population growth, urbanization and increases in household and industrial uses.
According to The Water Project, 319 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are without access to improved reliable drinking water sources.
Bacteria, viruses, parasites and pollution contaminate freshwater stores resulting in water scarcity. Water scarcity is a major problem even in areas where there is plenty of rainfall.
What if we could make clean water from contaminated water sources and rainfall? Keep reading to learn how it’s possible.
By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas (WHO).
A lack of clean water increases the risk of water-borne tropical diseases and diarrheal diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery. Water scarcity can also lead to diseases such as trachoma (an eye infection that can lead to blindness), plague and typhus.
But What Can Be Done?
About 102 million of the 159 million globally, or two thirds of people still using surface water live in Sub-Saharan Africa (The Water Project).
Water scarcity often necessitates people to store water in their homes, increasing the risk of household water contamination and providing breeding grounds for mosquitoes, carriers of dengue fever and malaria.
Does it sadden or infuriate you that in today’s technology age, people are still dying from such terrible but preventable diseases? What can be done? P
Pure Water Everywhere, a 501(c)-3, working with ANSA North America, has highly affordable, waste-free, portable water purification and desalination units that can help ease this suffering.
Clean Water is Everything
Water is essential for life and good health. Fresh water is needed for drinking and so much more.
Clean water is also needed for cooking, food production, hygiene and sanitation.
Lack of sanitation can force people to defecate in the open, in rivers and near areas where children play. Globally, at least 1.8 billion people use a drinking-water source contaminated with feces (WHO). These habits result in 115 deaths every hour in the African Region.
In fact, according to Pure Water for the World, unfamiliarity with good hygiene practices and lack of clean water and sanitation kill more people every year than all acts of war and violence, auto accidents, and HIV/AIDS combined.
Systems-wide Pure Water Solutions
In low- and middle-income countries, 38% of health care facilities lack improved water source, 19% do not have improved sanitation and 35% lack water and soap for handwashing (WHO).
One such area where this problem is especially acute for hospitals and healthcare providers is in sub-Saharan Africa.
Is it possible to convert unimproved sources, surface water, or even feces-contaminated water into drinking water? Yes… ANSA North America can make it possible.
42% of sub-Saharan hospitals don’t have clean water (of 5,000 hospitals) Of Sub-Saharan healthcare facilities, 42% lack an improved water source within 500 meters, 16% lack improved sanitation, and 36% lack soap for hand washing (The Water Project).
Many organizations help provide education and in-home water filters to people, but there has as yet been no systems-wide solution to water scarcity.
Universal Access to Clean Water is Our Goal
WHO and other non-governmental organizations have focused on in-home apparatus installation and education for private citizens.
However, their long-term vision is to incrementally work towards universal access at the facility, national and global level.
Pure Water Everywhere, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, working with ANSA North America, has highly affordable, low-footprint, portable water purification and desalination units that can help achieve this critical objective.
Water: A Basic Human Need
With your help, unsafe, contaminated water need not be a reality for anyone in this technological age.
At ANSA North America, we are determined to provide portable water purification and desalination technologies to supply pure drinking water to millions of people worldwide by providing access to a basic human need…pure drinking water.
ANSA North America can make it possible.
