Blog Action Day - Water

Today 15th October 2010 is Blog Action Day. According to Change.org

"Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. "

This year, Water as a valuable resource is picked as the theme. Why?

"Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us who are subject to preventable disease and even death because of something that many of us take for granted.

Access to clean water is not just a human rights issue. It’s an environmental issue. An animal welfare issue. A sustainability issue. Water is a global issue, and it affects all of us."

Water. It might be something you take for granted; it might be something you struggle for. Lack of it might cause your crops to fail, too much of it might wash your house away. Perhaps you make your living on the waters, or perhaps you live landlocked or dry country. Whatever your circumstance, water affects your life.

Please take some time to watch this video called HOME

20% of the world’s population consumes 80% of its resources
The world spends 12 times more on military expenditure than on aid to developing countries.
5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water.
1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry.
Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed of or biofuels.
40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage.
Every year 13 million hectares of forest disappear.
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 is threatened with extension.
Species are dying out at a rate 1000 times faster than the natural rate.
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline.
The average temperature of the past 15 years has been the highest ever recorded.
The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago.
There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

Unless we do something now we will not survive, the Earth will but with out us. 

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