Ensuring Clean Drinking Water

Ensuring Clean Drinking Water – A Global Challenge It’s a growing global crisis, and it’s getting worse every day: more than one billion people on our planet lack access to fresh drinking water. Almost half of them are children — and 125 million of them are under the age of 5. If present global water consumption patterns continue, two out of every three people on Earth will suffer from water-stressed conditions by the year 2025. Ongoing pollution, industrialization, deforestation, wasteful agricultural practices, global climate change and other environmental pressures are shrinking the planet’s clean water supply. Around the world, more people and communities are searching for clean, safe drinking water than ever before. And many of them are searching in vain. Each year 3.5 million people die from water-related diseases. Each and every day, more than 4,000 children die of water-borne illnesses, which are now the second leading cause of death for children under the age of 5. Compounding these staggering numbers are the unpredictable effects of increasingly frequent natural and man-made environmental disasters. These devastating events render safe water undrinkable in a matter of hours or even minutes.

 

Addressing the Problem
– Reversing the Cycle

Bringing safe, clean drinking water close to people’s homes and to victims of disaster — in short, to anywhere it is needed around the world — is the key to reversing the endless cycle of misery that affects so many people. Making clean water accessible is the key to transforming communities and preventing large-scale catastrophes.
The mobile purification units World Solutions provides to those in need have been designed for both immediate use and ongoing service. Simple to operate and very reliable, they require little maintenance. Yet they can provide a continuous supply of safe drinking water within minutes of arrival. Their versatile, self-sustaining design functions reliably and repeatedly in the most difficult water conditions in both remote and urban locations. These innovative and highly effective mobile purification systems can be moved among multiple sites to provide drinking water to several areas.

World Water Headlines

Beijing’s Water Demand Outpaces Supply Despite Conservation, Recycling, and Imports

“Beijing is at the bull’s-eye of a potentially ruinous collision between accelerating growth and scarce freshwater reserves…”

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Radiation Reaches Tokyo’s Tap Water

“As the death toll in the aftermath of Japan’s devastating tsunami reaches highs of more than 18,000, further fears are growing for survivors as radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants are thought to have contaminated food rations and tap water, sparking cancer fears among an already anxious community.”

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Donation to provide clean, safe water in Haiti

A special presentation and donation was given during the Rotary District 6960 meeting Friday morning that will benefit children in Haiti by preventing the spread of cholera.
Water One, a family owned and operated business, designed and manufactured a solar powered, mobile water purification wagon that will instantly purify water by eliminating 99.99 percent of bacteria and viruses.

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