Water is necessary for life. Earth is the way it is due to water, and all animals, including humans, cannot live without this highly valuable liquid--it could become a scarce resource in the 21st century.
Here are some facts about water and its consequences:
The average American uses 159 gallons of water per day, which is 15 times more than the average person in the developing world.
Around one in eight people do not have access to safe water supplies.
3.575 million people die each year from water-related diseases; a child dies of a disease every 20 seconds.
Only 62% of the world's population has access to adequate sanitation.
In Africa, women and children walk a total of 109 million hours to get water, over 40 billion in a year.
It takes half a liter of water to charge an iPhone--and there are over 80 million of those devices worldwide.
It takes 1,514 liters of water to make a cotton t-shirt.
2.5 billion people do not have access to toilets.
80% of the discharged material in developing countries is untreated, and pollutes water resources.
2 million tons of human waste are deposited in water sources every day.
I live in the USA--compared to a lot of people, I'm extremely fortunate to have running water within reach almost all the time.
Think about water. We wouldn't be here without it.
{Images found online--I do not own/claim anything}
-----The Golden Eagle
