Water Water Everywhere

Water, it is great cold, but not to great when it’s hot. If you mix it with different things, it can be good. We use it for everything. We cook, clean, wash, drink, and bath in it. We use it to brush our teeth. Do we really know if it is good for us? When was the last time your water was tested?  In some of the neighborhoods that uses well water, they were not allow to drink it for a couple of months because it was tested and had something in it that made it unsuitable to drink.

In an article, I found, how other countries face the problem of having unhealthy water and how it claims the lives of the children.

UNICEF said that unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 percent of deaths from diarrhoeal disease, or more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million children under five who perish from diarrhoea each year. Still unsafe levels of arsenic have been found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. “The problem is greatest in Bangladesh, where it was discovered that more than 30 percent of the tube wells sunk in recent decades are contaminated with arsenic above the nationally recommended level,” the report says.  The UNICEF report singles out sub-Saharan Africa – which represents about 11 percent of the world population – where almost a third of all people live without access to safe drinking water. (http://www.healthywaterfoundation.com/)