Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
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It has met state and federal standards for 9 years now.
Urban use is a rounding error compared to agriculture plus industry use. Also, someone flushing a toilet in Zurich has no effect on water in sub-Saharan Africa.
(Huh, just typing in the URL like that filled it in below).
Delivery of water uses some very well-established techniques that every country, region even, can master. There is really little that most external parties can do if the will is not there locally.
"It's an earthquake!"
"Hurry, kill a hen, drain its blood and take it to the alter over on 13th st."
If you are saying that more resources should be dedicated to providing clean water that's a different thing