Showing posts with label sanitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sanitation. Show all posts
Friday, 12 June 2015
Water and Sanitation
Plan works with communities to improve access to safe drinking water and to raise awareness of the importance of waste management.
More than 2.2 million children die every year – that’s four every minute – as a result of diarrhea caused by poor sanitation and hygiene.
Every year Plan helps communities build 2,000 school latrines and in the last three years has helped families and communities build an average 100,000 toilets per year, benefiting several million people.
We also provide water points in communities and schools, especially in rural areas, and establish community-based organizations to ensure the continued management and maintenance of water points.
Billions of people lack access to basic sanitation and are forced to defecate out in the open, contaminating food and water supplies.
In Asia and East and Southern Africa, Plan is pioneering a radical new approach – Community-Led Total Sanitation – which educates communities about the importance of sanitation and helps them to construct and maintain their own latrines. They also gain the confidence to enforce a total ban on open defecation.
Wise Water believes in providing clean water to residents. For more information please contact us at 1-866-427-7757 or visit us at www.wisewaterint.com.
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Wise Water International and Eagle Water Treatment brings to light the importance of our water resource here in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Running taps,
working toilets, and clean safe drinking water, they’re things people can take
for granted here in the Hamilton area. Yet around the world, millions of poor
people get sick or die each day because they must go without these necessities
of life.According to
the World Health Organization almost 900 million people in the world do not
have access to clean, safe drinking water, while 2.6 billion live without basic
sanitation. Across the globe, more than 6,000 people die each day from diseases
caused by dirty water — two-thirds of those are children. What could be
more crucial to life than clean purified water? The best way to protect our water
here in Hamilton is to manage it by protecting both water and the land it flows
through. By doing so, we can create healthy streams and healthy communities.
Here in the greater Hamilton area we depend on the Hamilton Conservation
Authority to do their part by protecting our valuable natural resource which is
water. According to a publication by the Hamilton Conservation Authority titled
“Leading Conservation Forward” our water currently may be placed under severe
stress. “As
urban populations and industrialization have proliferated, the water cycle and
its various components have been put under severe stress. This has created
flood conditions where none existed before, and the discharge of pollutants has
become a health threat to those who live downstream. These and related
environmental problems can be overcome, but only if we consider the water
resource in the context of all human activities within the drainage basins
(watersheds) of our rivers and streams.”
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