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.

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1. which serious error to make desalination. if there is as much salt water it is because that Ci is used as cleaner of all the pollution which one manufactures. for better managing drinking water available it would be enough to eliminate them on useless consumption. fountain garden cleaning watering for nothing and I pass from there nature is well made as it is. the proof: it succeeded in bringing by far this beautiful universe to us in which we live but that we destroy voluntarily or involuntarily.zones of the sphere on consumes water for nothing when zones of the sphere suffers from the lack of water. another thing on which I battle. the problems of drinking water are closely related to the problems of the treatment of waste waters its main source of pollution. more ily has water consumed in the habitat more there is production of waste waters. many zones of the sphere or are not badly equipped with cleansing. and when there is one of them it sends all pollution in the ground to load with him to be demolished some what generates a perennial epollution which will arise one day