Celebrating World Water Day 2013

In honor of World Water Day on March 22 I wanted to give you a brief history on World Water Day. Before I do that let's look at some facts about water and the worldwide water (and sanitation) crisis:

• If you look at all the water in the worldyou'd find that:
  • 97.5% of it is saltwater and therefore cannot be used for drinking water (it could be desalinated, but this is costly and takes a lot of energy, plus you need to find something to do with all the brine, a byproduct of the process).
  • The remaining 2.5% is fresh water, however, 70% of that is frozen in ice caps, and almost 30% is locked deep underground.
  • This means less than 1% of the world's fresh water is easily accessible to humans via lakes, shallow aquifers, rivers, streams and the like.
• 3.4 million peopledie every year from water and sanitation related diseases, which is like the entire population of Los Angeles dying. 99% of these deaths are in developing nations.

Continue reading atHydrateLife