The Importance of Water

The state of the parched trees in home gardens of the municipalities in central and north of La Guajira is a good indicator of what is happening not only in the region but the world we live in a time of drought that reached worrisome levels and whose effects can be terrible if nothing is done to tempo steps to protect water sources and to convince society and businesses of the need to give a rational and efficient use of the most valuable natural resource available to mankind.

The statistics regarding the water reserves in good condition for human consumption, conservation of sources and the number of people suffering for lack of a vital element must arrest and alarms from governments, foundations, agencies for environmental protection and in general anyone who wants to work for a planet we can live without anxiety or suffering the younger generation, namely our children and our children's children.

Access to water has been gradually becoming a privilege of which are excluded from ever larger groups of world's populations. Some studies by the United Nations Organization show that about eleven hundred million people worldwide are deprived the possibility of having water at your fingertips and your needs. In percentage terms we're talking more than 15% of tenants Total of marginal land use one of the most important providers of life and well being.

But the issue is much more complex and disturbing as the reports indicate that more than 2,400 million people without access to basic sanitation services, which certainly affects the quality of life for people in this situation and is a scenario conducive to the spread of diseases whose effects are relentless especially among children. In the above circumstance should be mentioned that 2,200 million people in poor countries, most of them children, die every year from diseases associated with lack of drinking water. This means that die daily because of this more than six million citizens of the world, over 250 thousand people per hour and more than four thousand per minute! From the moment the reader started reading this note have killed more than 25,000 men and women, mostly children, because of the lack of an efficient water or sanitation. It is estimated that if the regions hardest hit by this situation is providing clean water and lending it services worthy, deaths could be reduced by up to 75%.

When children were taught in geography classes that the planet is composed in three parts by water, which is still true, but ... only 2.5% of existing water bodies, is sweet, while the remaining 9.5% is salt water. But there is still a factor for this: from the entire fresh water that we saw is small, 70% is frozen at the poles. A good portion is in soil moisture and groundwater depth of which does not allow for total use. This means that we are living with a small amount of liquid of life, which is a very powerful reason that we care as a way to preserve our existence.

It is necessary to protect sources of water, take steps to protect the watershed of the rivers, replant their headers and prevent human hand remains harmful to nature and himself.

We could not live without gold and silver might continue to live without oil and without fuel, perhaps until we reduplicated to life of previous centuries if we had to live without Electrician, as some people are already doing because of the constant cutting fluid e `Radio Spectrum Committee. But never read it, we can never live without water. So must be cared with all our strength.