WWD

Today is the celebration of World Water Day (WWD). It is quite hard to figure how much of the world actually is aware of such a day being celebrated all over, since things like these aren’t advertised much. I have come to know of such a day through 94.3 FM Bangalore. The RJ was inviting punch lines with the word Water in it. Here are the couple of responses I managed to hear until I reached office:

1. Its better to go to Waterloo, than to go to the loo without Water. (Lame or Funny, Go Figure!)
2. Water is precious. To use it, dilute it. (Yeah, now that is Smart!).

Having fun reading, yeah? Help yourself by sparing a few more moments to know a few things, if you didn’t already.

WHO is celebrating “Water For Life”. It considers the decade from 2005 to 2015 as an International Decade for Action to focus and tackle the problems related to the Water world wide.

Read more here: World Water Day, Water For Life, Decade of Action

What can we do? – Spread the word. SMS, Email, Blog, Tweet, Saying “Happy Water Day” instead of an Hello or a Good Morning would be just fine (On a second thought, it may sound creepy. It does to me :). It may cost you an embarrassment, but may save a lot of lives out there, somewhere!)

Few Facts that you might want to know to motivate yourself in spreading the word and practicing what you preach ;)

1. Only less that 1% of the World’s fresh water is readily accessible for direct human use.
2. 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
3. 98% of water-related deaths occur in the developing world (India is still a developing country, remember!)
4. 884 million people, lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
5. The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns (Ooooh, peace looks worse here!).
6. At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease (And I was thinking it was AIDS and Swine Flu).
7. A person taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the typical person living in a developing country slum uses in a whole day (Guys, seriously, reconsider your bathing style. The traditional Mug and Bucket use will keep you healthy and save a lot of lives.)
8. Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
9. The daily requirement for sanitation, bathing, and cooking needs, as well as for assuring survival, is about 13.2 gallons per person i.e. 50 litres a day.
10. A person must consume 2 litres of water daily to live healthily. Humans drink an average of 75000 litres of water throughout their life (Did you really know this? Do you really think that each of 6 billion of worlds population can afford such a quantity?).

 Happy Water Day Y’all.

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