Hamilton provides examples of water conservation from Africa, Australia, and the United States. In Namibia, Africa, drinking water from the toilet is not uncommon. Hamilton records that “recycled water accounts for 35% of the drinking supply in the country’s capital city of Windhoek”. Recycled water consists of the water from toilets, showers, and other sources of the like. The article also notes “Windhoek is too high for desalination (purification) to be feasible and too far from big rivers to the north and south to build expensive pipelines to them”.…
We live in a world where clean water is a basic human right for people of a developed society, but a blessing--and perhaps difference between life and death-- for those of a developing society. If something can easily be improved, why not improve…
As a child growing up in Nigeria, clean water was hard to come by if the individual was not wealthy. Fortunately, my family is rich but that is not the case for the majority of Nigerians. In Nigeria the government is too corrupt to help its own people. Therefore, the water problem is ignored. However, the American government seems to care about how the people live.…
These problems bring about negative impacts in the society, because citizens who are affected with this problem have to find clean water to use. The government has been taken its imitative…
South Sudan’s Water Story Water is a necessity for all, yet only a limited amount of people have access to water in South Sudan. Even in that limited amount of people, a fraction of them have access to potable water. Only nineteen countries in Africa are estimated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (Saliu). Oftentimes, the people of South Sudan are forced to consume contaminated water thus this water and sanitation crisis consequently resulted in 400,000 water-related deaths in Africa (Saliu). Additionally, in South Sudan, the water contamination peaked during the South Sudanese civil war.…
Every person deserves the right to clean and healthy water free of contaminants…
During the 18th century, France possessed the colony known to them as Saint Domingue, an island in the Caribbean Sea. Possessing valuable resources and optimal conditions for growing expensive crops such as sugar, France dedicated much of their money into this little island, allowing Saint Domingue to become the wealthiest colony in this time period. However, the Haitian slaves revolted against the French colonial rulers, resulting in the first complete successful slave rebellion in history. However, the cost of the war, natural disasters, and a French "independence tax" crippled the former colony, leading to an almost instantaneous decline in the country's wealth and prosperity. Today, Haiti has the shameful title of the poorest country…
The intense famines in Africa are the result of many interwoven factors, but is the final straw the lack of water? It seems that the areas that can grow crops are over-farmed, and without heat-resistant seeds and irrigation the crops that do survive are not enough. Multiple years of crop failure are the foreshadowing of famine, pulling thousands already living in poverty into the cycle of famine, illness and death. Corrupt governments misuse donated funds to support military and other ventures, keeping the growing population in poverty. Many countries even rely on foreign food donations to support their people.…
In Rwanda, because of the topography, installing public water systems are hard. All these countries are suffering from the lack of clean water. In a global perspective, The ever increasing amount of water pollution is slowly but surely affecting everything in the…
The lack of water that we have had affects every single continent and around 2.8 billion people in the world at least once a year. During the summer British Columbia reached extreme dry conditions and was pushed to level 4 drought conditions while a severe drought in California is now approaching 4 years long and B.C is now heading for an California drought. Water shortage will have…
Revise edition by:-Melat Negash Taste of Ethiopia Taste of Ethiopia is a cultural event in Denver, Colorado, which is practicing once in a year by Ethio-Americans. This is the third one since it was started, in 2013. Eventually it was taking place the year I Came to America however, unfortunately I didn’t attend the first and the second events, which would be fine for me, to understand the progress they have made by comparing the present with the former occasions. Any ways hear I am to celebrate the day with my people. I am expecting to have a good time, enjoy the traditional music, dance with my friends, eat my beloved traditional foods and also want to drink my favorite homemade slightly Alcoholic beverage called “Tej”.…
Africa is growing rapidly and the ten or twenty years to come, its population will grow. As of now, it’s growing at a 3.9 percent per year and it will continue to been one of the highest growing population in the world. Currently about 1.2 billion people live in Africa; with over 40 percent of the population living in urban areas. The growth of the population is demanding more and more water for this region. This problem is further aggravated by the rate at which populations will be increasing.…
Discovering Sub-Saharan Africa Sub- Saharan Africa is located south of North Africa and in the middle of the south Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Being such a large continent, it was picked to pieces territorially by early colonization’s from large countries in Europe. With colonization completely withdrawing from the continent, it lays divided and has many challenges to overcome becoming a functioning continent. Few countries in that continent have normalized the transition from a colony into a peaceful independent country.…
Fresh Water Problem and How to Solve It Water is a natural energy that comes from the earth and all of the living being on earth are depend on the water, without water humans and animals are dead. 75% of the surface of the earth is covered by the water, despite the amount of the water on the earth is abundant the problem is the amount of the fresh water that we have. About 97.5% of all water on the earth is salt water, this means that we only have 2.5% of fresh water left. Approximately 70% of the fresh water is frozen and trapped inside the icecaps of antarticas and greenland, we cannot obtain this fresh water to fulfill our needs.…
There is a great chance it is going to get worse and people are going to get sicker as years go on and populations grow. Children are not going to live past the age of five and parents will not have enough money to afford clean water. There are many programs and organizations trying to help these villages in Africa. The Water Wells For Africa (WWFA) has a mission and it states, WWFA promotes rural African community development by providing sustainable water sources and reducing health risks associated with contaminated water. This is a good mission as sustainable water is something everybody should be able to enjoy in life.…