5669 x 5669 px | 48 x 48 cm | 18,9 x 18,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
28. September 1992
Ort:
Diveni Village, Transvaal, South Africa
Weitere Informationen:
During droughts bowser trucks deliver water to remote communities Providing safe emergency drinking water is essential to enable people to remain in their villages rather than forcing them to migrate to equally hard pressed areas and putting additional pressure on others scarce resources Drought emergencies are not usually immediate and unpredictable disasters but are progressive situations that can be managed to a degree Poverty is a major factor in water scarcity During drought emergencies the price of water for basic survival in remote rural areas becomes very high As traditional sources fail communities do not have the resources to provide alternatives such as drilling new boreholes and may have to buy water from commercial vendors at high costs Water shortage will always have more extreme consequences for the poor than for the rich There is a widespread view that global warming is happening but this has yet to be conclusively scientifically proven and the effect of this phenomenon on water resources is unknown The consensus is that the effect will be to accentuate the extremes with more pronounced droughts and more severe flooding Providing adequate drinking water is recognised as a worldwide problem and is particularly severe in rural and rapidly growing urban areas In the developing world one out of six people live without regular access to safe drinking water and diseases related to water kill a child every eight seconds and are responsible for 80 percent of all illnesses and deaths To secure our future and that of the next generation we must use water wisely No single measure can do more to reduce poverty reduce disease and save lives than providing safe water along with adequate sanitation and hygiene awareness and education of all people The long term challenge is to help people become water literate and to educate the public about the problems and complexities resulting from contamination of water through poor practices
