Clean Water & Sanitation: A Basic Human Right
| August 1, 2010 | Posted by Lisa Sharp under Uncategorized |
Earlier this week the UN voted 122 to 0 (41 abstained) to declared clean water and sanitation a basic human right. The lack of safe water and sanitation claims around 4,500 lives a day! This is a huge problem but thankfully this is a good first step to fixing it.
Awhile ago I wrote an article for a writing contest about one solution to this problem. Here is a short blurp.
“In a parable, two friends were walking by a river and one of them saw a baby in the river, he jumped in to save it only to see at least ten more. He yelled to his friend to come help but his friend continued to walk upstream. The first friend kept yelling asking him why he wouldn’t help. The second friend replied that he was going upstream to see who was throwing them in.
We not only need to save the babies but stop the people who are throwing them in the river. This relates to water because all to often we focus on cleaning the dirty water and not on finding out why it’s so dirty. We must fix the cause to truly fix the problem.”
You can read the whole article here- Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation claims 4,500 lives a day. What should we do about it?
