Why.Grow>Up?

If you’ve heard about Blog Action Day, you probably know that this year’s topic is Water. But hang on a second, WATER? Why water? I mean, yes, we all are concerned about the drinking water problems world around, but there certainly are more pressing and urgent problems our day-by-day shrinking world is facing. Absolutely right, there are wars, terrorism, education, population explosion, so on & so forth.

But think about it, a child dying of thirst? Or a child dying of disease caused by drinking contaminated water? Yes, destiny can be cruel sometimes and believe me, sometimes is an understatement.

What we take for granted instead of our constitutions stating so is the “Right to Clean Drinking Water.” It is something so basic that it wouldn’t even feature in our list of necessities, its there, by default, even if unsaid.

The face is that over one-third of the world’s population has no access to sanitation facilities and 1 out of every 4 deaths under the age of 5 worldwide is due to a water-related disease. Shocking? Well, sickening. But there is more - At any one time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.

In most sub-Saharan and in fact many developing countries, it is common for teenagers and house wives to walk for kilometers to fetch water, forget clean water. It is our duty to act and act responsibly.

What we can do:

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