World Crisis: Safe Drinking Water in Africa

World crisis: African safe drinking water Imagine you get water to walk more than 5 miles a day for you and your family. This is an unavoidable decision and a problem that African people face everyday. They can not access safe drinking water causing disease or death Victims of this crisis are mostly children. Unfortunately, "85% of children in Africa under the age of 5 are caused by waterborne diseases" (WCA).

The biggest mortality rate in Africa is due to preventable waterborne diseases affecting infants and young children over any other group. The main cause of these diseases is the regional water crisis, or the lack of safe drinking water, primarily due to the supply of mixed sewage and drinking water. People paid a lot of attention to AIDS epidemics in Africa. Every day, 3,000 Africans die of AIDS and 11,000 are infected with AIDS. Actual treatment is less than 1%. However, even with AIDS epidemic (the infection rate is close to 30% in sexually active populations), even deadly infectious diseases such as Ebola, the other diseases are more problematic. In fact, due to the declining infection rate, the situation of AIDS has improved in some countries, the number of deaths of Ebola is very small.

Our world is facing a big water crisis. According to statistics from the United Nations, there is no safe drinking water in a billion people 's households. As a result, they are often forced to move a few miles a day to collect the water they need. In addition to water supply problems, there are about 8 billion people exposed to contaminated drinking water, so it will be more susceptible to diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and polio. New York City is a coastal city with a population of 6 million people and is a leader in city water management. Mayor Bill de Blasio says: "Getting clean water is essential to protect the health and well-being of our cities and people all over the world, to secure watersheds and improve the flexibility of the water system"