Some Global Facts on Water and Poverty for Your Kind Consideration

The Labor-Work Syndicate in Turkey, supported by United Nations and World Bank statistics, has issued the following report on global water resources:

• Consumption of water has doubled the birth rate since the last century;


• The amount of usable water per person diminished by one-third between 1970 and 1990 (the same decrease is expected during 2000-2020);

• Under the worst scenario, seven billion people in 60 countries, out of a global population of 9.3 billion, will face water shortages in 2050;


• The consumption of water doubled in the last 50 years.


• A child born in a developed country consumes 30-50 times more than a child born in a developing country;


• 6,000 people, most of them are below the age of 5, die each from diarrhea as a result of drinking dirty water;


• 40 percent of the world does not have usable water;


• One-third of drinkable water in developed countries is used in toilet;


• An Israeli has access to six times more water than a Palestinian has;


• More than one in six people worldwide, 894 million, do not have access to this amount of safe freshwater.


• Today 2.5 billion people, including almost one billion children, live without even basic sanitation.

Do you also know that the annual military expenditure around in the world is is $1 to $1.35 trillion dollars and only one-quarter of this amount could solve water and waste problems?