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WORLD WATER DAY
March 22, 2024
DO YOU KNOW?
2.2 billion people are living without access to safe water. Water is life. It is essential for agriculture and food production. Often where there is hunger, there is also a lack of water that is safe to drink and also Droughts are becoming much more common in many parts of the world, which is increasing hunger for people who depend on agriculture to feed their families.
Water drives us towards peace. Water helps build trust across levels and scales, keeps a door to dialogue open even during conflict, and dissolve tensions towards prosperity. World water day has been observed since on the 22nd of March 1993 to highlight the importance of freshwater.
It focuses attention on the importance of water and how to preserve it. As we know that water is essential for life, without water we can’t survive. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. All plants and animals need water to survive as water is a source to life.
According to UN, at present, one in four people (two billion people worldwide) – lack safe drinking water. UNICEF reports that poor access to improved water and sanitation in Nigeria contributes significantly to the high morbidity and mortality rates among children under the age of five, with up to 70,000 children under the age of five dying annually as a result of their vulnerability to water-borne illnesses.
Environmental and Economic Resource Centre celebrates world water day because it is one of the most important element in every sector of life especially in the Agricultural sector.
WATER HAS NO ENEMY, WATER IS LIFE