GROUP 5

GLOBAL PROBLEM
PROBLEM

LACK OF
ACCESS TO CLEAN
DRINKING WATER
"Water Changes Everything"
Water
It is a precious resource and
indispensable for humans
We need it to survive
Water crisis “the silent crisis”
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One in eight people on this Earth lacks reliable access to this
precious resource.
✔️About 1.8 million people
die every year of diarrhea like diseases such as cholera.
✔️Tens of millions of others are seriously sickened by
various water-related illnesses

North America European Asian African South America Australian Antarctica

 Human Rights

2002 2010
"water as a human
“right to water” right'
proclaimed by the United Nations declared by United Nations General Assembly
 Root Causes
Why lack of access to clean
drinking water is a global problem Booming "mega cities"

Global warming

Untreated human waste and pesticides

Poor urban towns

 Benefits of Clean Water
So what are the benefits of clean water?

1 2
Improves life Improves the life of
in all age the community and
groups brings about

economic benefits

What can we do in order to solve this problem?

You can donate to organizations

You can help clean up streams
You can raise awareness through the internet
Don't pour chemicals down drains
Use safe products when you can
You can sign petitions
What is stopping easy solutions

Lack of funds from the government

Location

 Recap

Clean water
cuts down the
Water is a risk of Clean water
People need
diseases that is needed for
clean water human
can be communities
to survive right contracted by to grow
dirty water
GROUP 5

FILIPINO’S LACK OF
ACCESS TO CLEAN
WATER - NATIONAL
PROBLEM
"Water Changes Everything"
By the
numbers
7M lack access to better sanitation

3M rely on unsafe and unreliable

water sources

Health Effects
Booming "mega cities"
gastrointestinal illnesses

nervous system effects

reproductive effects

chronic diseases
 The root causes of these
diseases are because most
Filipinos do not have access to
clean water.

Sedona Community Church A WATER DRIVE

 1 IN 10 PEOPLE
The numbers of individuals getting diseases are getting higher especially
those who drink unsanitized water, especially those who live in rural areas
where poverty is high, inequalities are aggravated by this cycle of and link
between the lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and poor
health and low productivity. Most lives, are sadly taken away because of this
issue.

Lack of knowledge
most Filipinos have
with what they are
taking inside of their
body, they normalize
drinking unsanitized
water because that
is all they know.