Water Day
The theme the day focuses on of water quality, reflecting its importance alongside quantity of the resource in water management and will communicate messages on water quality, ecosystems and human well- being. Water is fundamental to life on earth. For human populations and ecosystems to thrive, that water must be clean, it must stay clean and, most importantly, it must be accessible to all.
World Water Day 2010 calls for “ Clean Water for a Healthy World ”. As the people along the globe celebrate this Day.
The fact is More than 2.5 billion people live without proper sanitation. An estimated 884 million people, the do not have access to safe drinking water. Some 1.5 million children under five die each year from sickness caused by water-borne diseases.
The degradation of water quality in rivers, streams, lakes, and groundwater systems has a direct impact on ecosystems and human health. This state of affairs represents an unspeakable human tragedy, and is also major obstacle to development. Water-related sickness and the additional financial hardship it brings, lowers the odds that a poor family will educate its children. This, in turn, robs the next generation of the opportunity to improve their own circumstances and break the cycle of poverty and deprivation trapping them.
Providing and Clean water and proper sanitation are where it all starts. A key approach to addressing water quality challenges should be based on pollution prevention, control and restoration strategies.
Numerous rivers, once the source of human prosperity and rich wildlife, are now heavily polluted. The degradation of water quality in surface and groundwater systems is further exacerbating water scarcity and negatively impacting our natural environment and the ecosystem services and goods that it provides, jeopardizing food security and livelihoods.
In these cost-cutting times, when economic difficulties jeopardise investment in development, we should be clear that developmental progress more than pays for itself.
Though access to safe water and sanitation would produce a global saving of more than $84 billion has been estimated that achieving the Millenium Development Goals
Though We already have the scientific knowledge to make immediate strides in theprovision of clean water and sanitation, provided the funding is there.
Researchers are developing new and ingenious ways of protecting surface waters and groundwater systems from pollution, and ensuring better water management. On this World Water Day, Governments, civil society, the private sector and all stakeholders to put the goal of “Clean Water for a Healthy World” at the forefront of their priorities.
