Tanzania. Discuss issues related to access to safe drinking water in a named country.
Discuss issues related to access to safe drinking water in a named country.
From general to specific and come back to global picture at the end
The scarcity of water has always been a major problem in Africa where local infrastructure development remains poor. In Tanzania, limited access to drinking water has a great impact on local people’s lives. By having access to drinking water means that local people will be able to reach water sources within less than 1 km of walking distance from their homes and people are able to use 20 liters of water per person per day. The safe drinking water standards has to meet the WHO regulations which specifies the absences of mycobacterial, viruses, chemicals and pollutants in the water. According to Tanzania’s access to safe drinking water data, there’s a trend showing that although both the rural and urban areas of Tanzania’s access to improved water source is declining, the problem is more of an issue in the urban areas. In urban areas, the rate of declining is much greater than the rural areas, however, urban areas still have a higher percentage of access to water sources than the rural areas. Meanwhile, urban areas have twice the percentage of improved sanitation facilities compared to rural areas and there’s a pattern showing an increasing trend of improved sanitation for urban areas only. The improvement in technology has helped to improve the water sanitation system in Tanzania, but I don’t really understand why the access to water source in urban areas would decline over time. One possible explanation is that with the impact of global warming and city development, there are less water sources available therefore, the access has declined.