DO YOU VALUE WATER?
- Boomerang
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min read
I ask you to value water? Can you? No you can’t. Water is life. It sustains us.
There are 17 sustainable goals. Within that, the 6th goal is about water. And it’s called as “Clean Water and Sanitation”. It can be spread as “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. Water; is our most precious resource. Because on 0.5% of earth’s water is readily available for human being and their consumption. Newly details prove that 40% of the world’s people are affected by water scarcity. It appears; because of this climate change. Population is growing up, and they demand water as well. Not only water, but also food and energy. The saddest part is yet we often value and manage it extremely poor. The value of water is difficult to quantify because various audiences conceptualize and describe its values.
All over the world, from developing to industrialized countries, water availability and quality is the mass increasing challenge. The World Economic Forum now ranks water as the greatest risk. It is a precious resource that needs to be better managed for survival and growth. There is a risk. What can we do?
We can denial the water crisis. We can stop polluting water. We can save our children from bacteria. For all these things we should give best education system for the future. It means students in nowadays. We should innovate new solutions. Eco system management, sanitation though. We should be hot to those who pollute water. Do think there is no connection with the political parties? No we have. It helps us to take the hard decisions about how we understand the value and manage the water.
by Chinthani Navodya Gamage
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