What can people do to make a difference on clean water and sanitation? People in other countries need clean water to drink these countries are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Chad, Cambodia,Laos, Haiti, Ghana, India, Rwanda, Bangladesh. All of these don’t have clean water to drink we need to do something about it. Here are a couple ways we can provide clean water and sanitation for nine billion people. 1 We need a better accounting of our water in many places we don’t have any idea how current and near-term future demand matches up with the available surface and groundwater supplies. 2 Although the Swiss are quite efficient at using water within our country we have a huge water footprint because of all the food and goods we import often from very water stressed parts of the world. Globalisation means there is a global water economy at play. 3  Currently those who work on water services think almost exclusively in terms of access and those who work on water resources think in terms of sectors and water usage. I think the water service people need to think harder about where the water for increasing coverage is going to come from and how we can best implement sanitation services that protect water resources. 4 For a long time we treated water as limitless, and the incentive structures in cities and rural areas pushed people towards unsustainable practices. Water distribution being highly subsidised by governments doesn’t help create awareness about its actual value. We must make measurable efforts to change water-use habits in a global scale. 5  For developing countries this may feel like a hard task, but governments do this sort of thing for education, energy, and other sectors. It’s high time to do the same for water. Betsy Otto. 5 To secure a safe water supply for the poorest people service providers should get into trouble when they fail to provide the services the poorest need. 6 In places like Sierra Leone, Liberia and Tanzania, more than 15 to 20 percent of water points fail in the first year after construction. Poor communities often have to contribute a great deal for a new water point. 7 This could of course be prevented if there is an effort to invest in simple but efficient technologies for irrigation.

              By: Madix

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