1 BILLION people lack access to clean drinking water

Stunned by the enormity of this tragedy, I reflected on the relevance of our conservation work to this year’s World Water Day theme of water scarcity। The lack of suitable water for people and for nature is a growing crisis:

More than 1 billion humans lack access to clean drinking water.
Two billion — almost one in every three people on the planet — do not have adequate sanitation facilities or electricity.
Some may see the conservation of nature as less important and urgent than providing water wells, purifying filters and vaccines for the world’s vulnerable children। These humanitarian efforts have saved millions of lives, and continuing investment in them is essential.

But many of these solutions address the symptoms of the freshwater crisis — not its underlying causes.

More Conservation Equals More Humanitarianism
The majority of water-related diseases are linked to what humans are doing to our land and water.

When rain falls on an increasingly human-modified landscape, it flushes a chemical stew into rivers, lakes and estuaries, disrupting natural ecosystems that keep disease-causing organisms in check। The explosion of red tides in coastal areas around the world is a warning that when our land and water are sick, we suffer as well।

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