Today, World Water Day is celebrated, which promotes sustainable practices in the field of water and energy, and is an issue that we can relate to children. On the occasion of this date UNICEF warns that 1,400 children under the age of five die daily due to causes related to lack of drinking water.
Specifically, it is childhood diarrheal diseases caused by the lack of drinking water and adequate sanitation and hygiene that causes this sad number of dead children, poor children living in developing countries but who have the same right to survival, to health and a future that our children.
According to calculations of UNICEF and WHO nothing less than two thirds of the world's population does not have improved sources of drinking water (Those that, due to the nature of their construction or through active intervention, are protected from external contamination, especially fecal contamination).
This mass of population is concentrated in only ten countries: China, India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh, the United Republic of Tanzania, Kenya and Pakistan.
There is another problem that NGOs want to highlight today, which is that girls and women suffer disproportionately from the consequences of lack of access to drinking water. They account for 71% of the load represented by the collection of water for consumption.
The message of the Secretary General of the United Nations for this year on World Water Day includes the following purpose:
On World Water Day, let's commit to creating the necessary policies to ensure that sustainable water and energy are available to everyone, not just a few.
Hopefully it will be realized, because as we see the lack of drinking water in the world constitutes a serious health problem that especially affects children. And remember that today we can celebrate this day with the children, because they are the key to a better future.
