How can we ensure that all citizens of the world can have drinking water in quantity and quality? There are countries that have 10 m3 / inhabitant / year, and other countries that have more than 30,000 m3 / inhabitant / year. There are citizens in the world who have 10 liters / capita / day of non-potable water, and other citizens who have 1000 liters / capita / day. The right to water is recognized by the United Nations, but also by many countries. How to ensure that there is water for the citizens of the world. My motto, my idea is: "Water for all in quality and quantity is everyone's business".
Question en Francais.
Comment faire pour que tous les citoyens du monde pourront avoir de l’eau potable en quantité et qualité ?
Il y a des pays qui ont 10 m3/habitant/an, et d’autres pays qui ont plus de 30 000 m3/habitant/an.
Il y a des citoyens dans le monde qui ont 10 litres/habitant/jour d’eau non potable, et d’autres citoyens qui ont 1000 litres/habitant/jour.
Le droit à l’eau est reconnu par les nations unies, mais aussi par beaucoup de pays.
Comment faire pour qu’il y ait de l’eau pour les citoyens du monde.
Ma devise, mon idée est : « De l’eau pour tous en qualité et quantité, c’est l’affaire de tous ».
Ahmed Kettab
Dear Professor,
Your concern about water, particularly about drinking water must be appreciated. I really like the motto that you have framed. It is true that if we are to ensure water for all, then all of us have to be involved with this.
To ensure, drinking water for all the citizens of the world is not a matter related to water conservation and distribution only. It is a political and human matter. We have to consider the entire world as our own and then only we can do this.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
By using nanotechnology technology, we ensure that everyone on Earth has access to safe drinking water and more.
Dear Prof.
It is not impossible if high tech giant and developed countries come forward to solve it. Moreover, the UN can play an important role to monitor the activities.
Please take a look at this useful link.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/jul/14/water-sanitation-scarcity-population-growth-summary
Dear Md Rabiul Alam
OK; question has 1 billion dollars. In reality it takes 600 billion dollars to solve the problem: according to the world bank. what is your solution?
lack of access to clean water and sanitation is a major global issue affecting billions of people around the world every year. Leaders from 193 countries have agreed to ensure access to water and sanitation for all people by the year 2030, which is Goal 6 of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 interconnected goals that seek to transform our world by ending all forms of poverty, eliminating inequalities and improving the state of the world’s natural and human-made environments through sustained multinational cooperation and efforts in the next 15 years.
By learning about, teaching about and taking action on the state of clean water and sanitation around the world, young people can play a valuable leadership role in helping to accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/clean_water_and_sanitation_five_facts_to_becoming_informed_and_engaged
Dear Manal Hadi Kanaan
thank you for your excellent answer and your website
Please have a look at this link
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50770/
Global Environmental Health: Research Gaps and Barriers for Providing Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services: Workshop Summary.
Promote good hygiene habits through education. Proper hand washing with soap and water can reduce diarrhea cases by up to 35 percent. Implement rainwater harvesting systems to collect and store rainwater for drinking or recharging underground aquifers. Build wells to extract groundwater from underground aquifers.
https://rotaryserviceblog.org/2018/03/02/5-ways-to-improve-water-quality-and-access-to-water/amp/
Provide home water-treatment capability through the use of filters, solar disinfection, or flocculants, to make drinking water safe.
Promote low-cost solutions, such as chlorine tablets or plastic bottles that can be exposed to sunlight, to improve water quality.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/rotaryserviceblog.org/2018/03/02/5-ways-to-improve-water-quality-and-access-to-water/amp/
Icebergs are the solution to the world’s water crisis, according to some. We simply need to float them to the places of greatest need with the aid of tugboats. Icecaps contain double the fresh water of the world’s lakes and rivers, which all goes to waste when they break free and melt into the salty ocean. With 85% of humans living in earth’s driest places, many located along the equator, icebergs would need to be tugged a long way. Georges Mougin spent a lifetime trying to make it feasible.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/how-can-we-ensure-clean-water-for-everyone/
Though 71% of earth is covered by oceans, lakes, and rivers, more than 10% of people lack clean water. Significant progress has been made since 1990, with one-third of humans gaining access to improved water. Focused effort over the past 15 years as a Millennium Development Goal made a world of difference for 2.6 billion people. The Sustainable Development Goal over the next 15 years is to ensure liquid gold for the remaining 660 million.
There is enough freshwater for the planet’s population today, though it’s not located where the majority of people live, it’s polluted, and it’s poorly managed. An additional 4 billion inhabitants before the end of the century will drive up the number of people living in water-scarce regions from 36% today to 50% by 2050.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/how-can-we-ensure-clean-water-for-everyone/
Dear Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak
thanks for your excellent response and comments.
Dear Chinaza Godswill Awuchi
Thank you very much for all this very interesting and useful information for all
Dear A. Kettab No one can ensure to each and everyone; of course, each one can ensure for himself or herself by adopting suitable measures of recycling, avoiding wastage, and enhancing water use efficiency and productivity.
There is enough freshwater for the planet’s population today, though it’s not located where the majority of people live, it’s polluted, and it’s poorly managed. An additional 4 billion inhabitants before the end of the century will drive up the number of people living in water-scarce regions from 36% today to 50% by 2050.
People experience water stress in developing and developed countries alike. Many residents are asked to reduce consumption as the state heads into its 5th year of drought, though 70% is swallowed up by farmers. Outdated water rights and regulations are a huge part of the problem, and subsidies encourage mismanagement, including the selection of crops with huge irrigation demands. With river basins drying up, farmers are drilling wells to suck dry critical underground water tables.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/how-can-we-ensure-clean-water-for-everyone/
All our water problems would disappear if we could simply tap our oceans. Some coastal farmers are trying to find crop strains that successfully grow in salinated fields, while engineers look for economical ways to desalinate ocean water. The traditional method of boiling doesn’t easily scale to meet global need. Research continues for new techniques, such as work at MIT to “shock the salt right out of it.”
Until a major breakthrough in water treatment comes through, or a steady stream of tugboats float massive ice cubes to earth’s middle, proper water and waste management will be crucial to meeting global demand.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/how-can-we-ensure-clean-water-for-everyone/
Ahmed Kettab Timely needed and much appreciated question to the Society. i hope enough water available but need to buy if anyone want use quality water always.
Poor families are managing with whatever available near to them.
I think to answer this at this pint of time is very dramatic, as it is well known that clean water is very hard to find. If we are talking about the water available to the citizens all over the world, then I must say there are a lot many countries, cities, ad sub-cities where the peoples still struggling with the water for their daily needs. In such cases, they don't even bother about the clean or dirty water as they know the real value of water.
Moreover, the motto you framed shows your expertise and broad vision to save the water and make it quality.
I highly appreciate your efforts Ahmed Kettab
Thanks Ahmed for this usefull question!
In Algeria, it's necessary to start by taking charge of the losses of public water which flows in the streets because of the pipes which are archaic.
2nd problem, the glaring lack of wastewater treatment plants, which are at a standstill. Water treatment can be reused for certain agricultural products or others......
Best regards
Safia
Dear Safia.
Thank you for your very fair and interesting response. wastewater treatment plants are a necessity.
kind regards
Ahmed
From World Health Organization (WHO). All the data related to water analysis with respect to chemical, physical , microbiological are available in WHO
Using less water to do more. Use it efficiently and effectively for the benefit of others
It is very difficult to ensure the record for this for every part of the world, until and unless if some movement bodies will start working on it. Ahmed Kettab
Dear Sir: Really appreciate your concern about water because nowadys water storage is a big issue.
The link is useful related to the human right to water and the MDGs https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml
In morocco it's so difficult to make sure from this point because of the lack of control by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Dear Poonam Kharangarh
thank you very much for your kindness and comments. thanks also for website. best regards and regards
Dear Karim Tanji
Does the World Water Council also have a role to play?
Ahmed Kettab
Dear Professor,
I was just going through your question. It reminded me of a man who once said that the world has enough for every man's need but not for every man's greed. The man who said this had also said once that an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. You know, I am talking about a great man called Mahatma Gandhi. In India, we consider him the 'Father of the Nation".
I was just thinking that if we start to believe what he said, probably all citizens of the world can have drinking water in proper quantity and quality.
Its just a thought that I am sharing with you.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Dear Anamitra Roy
Thank you very much for sharing with me; this very just and honorable thought. How to put it into practice ... that is the question?
Dear Ahmed Kettab in my opinion the World Water Council play an important role in this issue
The national governments, multinational corporations, and the local communities would have to be engaged in a dialogue to define the factors entailing the quality and quantity in order to have a sustainable solution; put human life, lives, and livelihoods at the center of discussion.
Dear Professor,
Thanks for sharing your question. Infact the world is not facing the consequences of technology and resources depletion. Infact Its hiddeN agenda of captitalist Which is Being implemented in the world. To promote the policies Which are in favor of capitalist . Ensuring safe acess to water and sanitation was A target to be achieve in MDGs. Infact world probe is not in numbers But in perception and belief Which we have for each other Particularly for religion . To change the world perspective for development by integrating the Sustainable development concept . you need to include the Religious belief for sake of protection and utilization of resources. Almost all religion promote ideas of clean and safe water usage . World will not need the huge amount to bring proserity for the world like we had for MDGs and SDGs.
Prof. I would like to say that the idea you are putting across is a pipe dream. Why I say this is because of water challenges in Kenya. Some water shortages are due to human desire to deprive his or her neighbor water and secondly, the geographical and hydro-logical distribution which is beyond human control. I suggest Prof that we look for research funds to try and proof this.
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