Saturday, March 16, 2013
Access to Healthy Water
Access to healthy water is important to infant and toddlers development. Children from six months and up need adequate water to help aid bio-social, cognitive and psychosocial development. I chose this topic because of the changes in smells of drinking water, and it is now tasting nasty, due to the Mississippi River dropping water levels in the community that I serve, as well as others. My goal in this blog is to help open the eyes of some that lack knowledge on how it is to provide water that is healthy and accessible for our children.
Although slowly improving, Africa along with many other countries have huge gaps of supply of healthy water. Researchers are doing the best that they can to close the gaps, but the target that they are trying to reach will not be a success if sanitation does not improve. Many infants and toddlers lack in development because they do not have access to water and/or is drinking contaminated water. I read in an article on water.org, Water Facts: Water that stated that unhealthy water can kill children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours...powerful.
UNICEF. (2012) Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/JMPreport2012.pdf
National Park Service. (2013) Water Quality in the Mississippi River
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Hello Mia!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this information. I chose Malnutrition (and looked into Africa's issues with that). Related to that-- water!! I know there are many groups that go to Africa to work on helping the issues for these people. They lack so many resources for proper human development. Plus, with the overpopulation and extreme poverity, it seems like an uphill battle.
You mentioned that your own community is noticing changes in the water- What are they doing to help? Is there a shortage going on? It's so scary isn't it?
Thanks so very much,
Anne
Very scary for the body. Our Mississippi River has dropped water levels dramatically. The website that I provided had a topic for issues like this. It is not only affecting the drinking water, it is slowing transportation via the river. We as citizens are patiently waiting on a better solution to the problems, but the article explains in in depth.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anne!
Mia
Hello Mia,
ReplyDeleteThanks for providing the information and the link to Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation. Where I live across the river there water is unhealthy and contaminated because they water was coming out brown, but now they are working to make it better.