Investigate how the limited access to clean water and effective sanitation affect the quality of life of people in your chosen country.

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Access to clean Water: Access to clean water is at least 20 litres of water per person from a source, within 1 KM from the user’s home.

 

Investigate how the limited access to clean water and effective sanitation affect the quality of life of people in your chosen country.

• Country: India
• Population: 1.15 Billion (2nd largest in the world, under China)
• Child deaths (under 5) from diarrhoea per annum: 320,000
• Life Expectancy: 64 years
• Water supply coverage: 88%
• Sanitation coverage: 31%
• Below poverty line: 29%
• Adult literacy: 63%

Investigate how the limited access to clean water and effective      sanitation affect the quality of life of people in India

• Describe how the quality of life in your country has been affected economically.

• If people have severe diseases, they will not be able to work; this will affect their total income from their jobs (if they have one).

• India’s capital city has a population of more than 12.55 million. With the population growing more and more every year, less people will be getting jobs, this means less people will earning money to buy normal household stuff like; water and food. More people will end up on the streets, or will be living in the slums. Also by the population increasing by the year, people will be having less sanitation than they normally have. Diseases will be spreading faster by human contact. People that live in rural areas will have a greater chance of getting ill, than people living in urban areas.

• When people have nowhere to go to the toilet, you would have to wait until it was dark before you could go. This would expose you a lot of danger of sexual harassment, assault and animal attacks, also a lot of discomfort, loss of dignity and sometimes illness due to other faeces around the space.

• In the urban slums without access to clean water women would have to walk long distances, or use dirty water from ponds or rivers. Or they might get charged large amounts of money by water sellers. Women need to have a job, to get income, to keep their families, so the need to get safe water becomes a drain on their time and their money.

• When women and children actually spend their time and effort collecting water, the water itself is actually dirty and polluted and a health hazard. Unclean water causes a lot of problems for people living in the slums. It causes illnesses such as diarrhoea and dysentery, which are responsible for a lot of deaths of thousands of children.

               

Social issue of clean water and sanitation

Research possible methods to improve the supply of clean water and effective sanitation.

References

• "Water Supply and Sanitation in India." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopaedia. Web. 3 Jan 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_India>.

• "Sanitation | WaterAid." WaterAid - Water and Sanitation for All - International Site. Web. 3 Jan. 2011. <http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/the_need/5900.asp?gclid=CJybyJrqnqYCFQ4f4QodFxtlZA>.

• "India | WaterAid." WaterAid - Water and Sanitation for All - International Site. Web. 3 Jan. 2011. <http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/where_we_work/india/default.asp?gclid=CIzmzO7qnqYCFcoe4QodySSYYw>.