Problems of access and affordability for drinking water

Abstract

The issue of water and sanitation has become a very common problem especially in the developing nations. The majority of individuals without safe drinking water live in developing countries. As such, most research and development programs focus on drinking water and sanitation issues in these regions. This is mainly because of increase in the amount of pollution that makes the water in the open streams contaminated. Another problem that leads to contamination of water is the waste that is produced by the factories and is dumped in the water. This is the reason why the people who consume the water get more prone to various diseases and infections because the water is unfit and unhealthy for drinking purposes. Therefore, efforts should be taken by the government to ensure that the drinking water for the people is clean and free from any kind of contaminations to ensure a healthy nation. Most research also focusing on safe drinking water seeks to investigate the reasons that inhibit nearly 1 billion people in developing countries from having safe drinking water. Yet, there are still numerous communities in the United States without safe drinking water that often fail to enter into global water discourses.

Table of contents

Introduction4

Discussion4

Water Supply5

Water Affordability6

Inadequate Sanitation7

Problems of Safe water in United Nations8

Drinking water in the United States9

Conclusion9

Problems of access and affordability for drinking water

Introduction

Societies from all over the world are facing major issues of accessibility and affordability for drinking water. Problem of drinking water and difficulties in the developing nations of the world, or nations that are less developed, presents exceptional administration challenges. These matters and difficulties encompass insufficient drinking water provide and affordability including the sanitation services, water pollution, floods, the siltation of stream schemes, and the administration of streams and large dams. These difficulties are more critical and prevalent in the developing nations than in the world's wealthier, industrialized ones. Barriers to speaking to water difficulties in developing countries encompass scarcity, illiteracy, fast community development, and ineffective organizations and principles for developing, circulating, charge, and safeguarding water resources.

Around 1.1 billion persons globally manage not have get access to advanced water provide causes while 2.4 billion persons manage not have get access to any kind of advanced sanitation facility (WHO, 2011). The water quantity on the earth does not change but the amount of useful water is decreasing due to the adverse impact of the human activities (urbanization, industrialization, growing population, etc.)

Discussion

The patterns of the difficulties that are occurring in the nation, caused because of the dissimilarities take place in riches, natural environment, and political systems. There are places such as Sahara in which the people are not able to get water because its scarcity. One of the most flood prone nations in the world is Bangladesh because of the position of Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. Moreover, apartheid that was practiced previously in South Africa did not enable the people to get sufficient amount of water. Therefore, there are such dissimilarities which resulted ...