To have fresh water is a human need!

The fault line between sanitation
and water
In rich countries clean water is now available at
the twist of a tap. Private and hygienic sanitation
is taken for granted. Concern over water
shortages may occasionally surface in some
countries. But that concern has to be placed in
perspective. Children in rich countries do not
die for want of a glass of clean water. Young girls
are not kept home from school to make long
journeys to collect water from streams and rivers.
And waterborne infectious disease is a subject
for history books, not hospital wards and
morgues.
The contrast with poor countries is striking.
While deprivation is unequally distributed
across regions, the facts of the global water crisis
speak for themselves. Some 1.1 billion people
in the developing world do not have access to a
minimal amount of clean water. Coverage rates
are lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa, but most people
without clean water live in Asia. Deprivation
in sanitation is even more widespread. Some
2.6 billion people—
half the developing world’s
population—
do not have access to basic sanitation.
And systemic data underreporting means
that these figures understate the problem.
“Not having access” to water and sanitation
is a polite euphemism for a form of deprivation
that threatens life, destroys opportunity
and undermines human dignity. Being without
access to water means that people resort to
ditches, rivers and lakes polluted with human
or animal excrement or used by animals. It also
means not having sufficient water to meet even
the most basic human needs.
While basic needs vary, the minimum
threshold is about 20 litres a day. Most of the
1.1 billion people categorized as lacking access
to clean water use about 5 litres a day—onetenth
of the average daily amount used in rich
countries to flush toilets. On average, people in
Europe use more than 200 litres—in the United
States more than 400 litres.

Velkommen til SEH bloggere og gæster!: SEH mangler er ægte netværk

Velkommen til SEH bloggere og gæster!: SEH mangler er ægte netværk

Small steps with greath care!

I will in this month telle you some story-telling from Poland!

I will be back soon.
Hans Audius

Splendid Conference in Lund 3-4 February 2007

Most members at this Internal Conference 3-4 of February 2007 at Lund was most satisfied!
Material from the Board can be achieved by Hans Audius, Gdansk.
Most welcome back in April in Kiel.
Lars Lund, Kiel.