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Over 1.0 billion people worldwide lack access to a safe source of water. Over 2.5 billion people lack the means for safe sanitation. This problem--collectively known as the global water crisis-- is an acute and devastating humantarian crisis.

 

By 2030, nearly half of the world's people will be living in areas of acute water shortage.

 

“Population growth will make the problem (the world water crisis) worse. So will climate change. As the global economy grows, so will its thirst. Many more conflicts lie just over the horizon,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned when he addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland January 2008.

 

More alarming facts and urgency for actions can be found in the United Nations' third report "Water in A Changing World".


The excellent and powerful photo essay from Time magazine and the book Blue Planet Run track mankind's vital struggle to provide safe drinking water to the one billion people who lack it.

 

Business Week's photo essay shows some of the world's most water-challenged countries.

  

More information on world water crisis can be found at :

Feeling inspired?

 

World Water Association (WWA) is a non-profit and public charity organization run by teens in the King County of Washington State of the United States. The mission of WWA is to spread awareness among teens of the global water crisis, and to alleviate its hardships by raising money through local fundraisers.

 

Here are a few examples that you can help:

 

  • Learn in more depth about the world water crisis and spread the awareness of the crisis in your own community.
  • Assess the present water situations of your own region. Are there potential water supply problems in your region in the future?
  • Raise fund to help those in or outside your region who otherwise cannot access clean water.
  • Form your own group, or volunteer in organization such as WWA that targets world water crisis.
  • Monitor and cut down your own water consumption:
     

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    Feel free to contact us at: worldwaterassociation@gmail.com