Global Water Shortage: Water Scarcity & How to Help
Makeni Marketplace Well Repair
A well is repaired for a community in Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone - Last Update: 08/20/2010
UMC Primary School - Makeni
A well is repaired for community in Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone - Last Update: 08/20/2010
Lugor Village Well
A new well for a community in Sudan
Country: Sudan - Last Update: 08/26/2010
Martule Village Well
A new well for a community in Southern Sudan
Country: Sudan - Last Update: 08/26/2010
We take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles.
And still, today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don't have access to it.
Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. It is the foundation of life, a basic human need. Yet today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.
What is Water Scarcity?
Simply put, water scarcity is either the lack of enough water (quantity) or lack of access to safe water (quality).
It's hard for most of us to imagine that clean, safe water is not something that can be taken for granted. But, in the developing world, finding a reliable source of safe water is often time consuming and expensive. This is known as economic scarcity. Water can be found...it simply requires more resources to do it.
In other areas, the lack of water is a more profound problem. There simply isn't enough. That is known as physical scarcity.
The problem of water scarity is a growing one. As more people put ever increasing demands on limited supplies, the cost and effort to build or even maintain access to water will increase.
Read more about Water Scarcity
What Can Be Done?
In some places, it is simply dry. Water is hard to find. In others, this most critical need is literally only a few feet below ground waiting to sustain life.
The Water Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization working to provide access to clean water to people in developing nations who suffer needlessly without it.
With our team of supporters we're funding clean water projects like water wells and rain catchment systems.
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