A Case Study of Water Crisis and Its Impact on Environment and Community Health
TABASSUM JAHAN
Researcher (Home Science)
WitWaves Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2024, e7a7da3b-bd67-4c27-9455-1cc6c0fc4bf0
Published: 01 October 2024
Abstract
The water crisis is directly correlated with the environment and community health. The understanding of environmental sanitation was limited to general cleanliness of the houses and did not extent to the safe methods of disposal of refuse, solid waste etc. The understanding of the unsafe disposal of these being a potential source of infections and diseases. Stagnating water, lack of proper drainage for waste water, improper garbage disposal is very harmful for health and environment. Water is precious for our life. Life is not possible without water. Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand. We are facing a Global water crisis and it is getting worse. We are at a real inflection point where, if we are not care. Annually about 37.7 million Indian are affected by waterborne diseases, 1.5 million children die from diarrhea. Earth is the blue planet. There is no shortage of water. We have 326 million trillion gallons of it. But 97% of it is salty and 2% is trapped in ice at poles, so, all of us humankind relies on just 1% of that water to survive.
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