Michelle Yazvac
4/16/11
Blog #11
According to the UN, around 6 million Iraqis are without clean water and half of the country’s water resources are wasted.
"Iraq faces difficulties in meeting the target of 91 percent of households using a safe drinking water supply by 2015," due to decades of conflict, sanctions and neglect, theUNICEF children's fund stated.
50% of water is wasted due to waste, seepage and system inefficiencies. One in five Iraqis go without clean water. According to the article more than 500,000 Iraqi children access their water from a river or creek and over 200,000 access their water from an open well. Diseases could be derived from the water because of pollution and the accumulation of people using the same water resource.
Over 360,000 cases of diarrhea was an occurrence as a result of polluted drinking water. There is a lack of an awareness for hygiene among local communities In the first six months of 2010, there were over 360,000 diarrhea cases as a result of polluted drinking water and a lack of hygiene awareness among local communities more so with women and children. UNICEF is supporting Iraq’s water problem by creating an awareness and providing training camps. More investments will be made towards this organization for water infrastructure to try and keep these resources from being polluted.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/world-water-day-iraq-wastes-50-of-water
1 comment:
This topic was really interesting to me since I did health and diseases for my blogs. Stagnant waters filled with pollution that are not filtered is death to all man kind. So many diseases fill up news report cases because many people will get sick. There needs to be a better way of water security or filters for this community or the death rate will rise because of it.
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