WORLD WATER DAY Freshwater Conflict photos

Date of the document: March

Hi!! here is a document published by National Geographic about the world water day, here are some pictures to reconsider the importance of water to the hole world and to change our customs to protect the water

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Factory Waste, China

Photograph by Greg Girard

Discharge from a Chinese fertilizer factory winds its way toward the Yellow River. The Chinese government’s 2010 national pollution census revealed that the nation’s grievous water pollution problem was twice as bad as previously estimated because agricultural wastes were not included in earlier estimates.

Industrial pollutants, like chemicals and heavy metals, and untreated human waste also help render much of China’s freshwater unsafe for human consumption.

Eritrean Refugees

Photograph by John Stanmeyer

Momina Mohammed and her eight-month-old son Ali eye an uncertain future from a refugee camp in Suola, Ethiopia, near the Eritrean border.

Mother and child are both suffering from severe malnutrition, as are thousands of other Eritreans who fled across the border to escape harsh lives under their own government. A lingering drought had already claimed the lives of many domestic animals, like goats and camels, on which many people depended.

Water Conservation, Australia

Photograph by Amy Toensing

In drought-ravaged southern Australia this Hallett Cove family not only shares showers, but carefully captures the runoff in buckets. In this arid land water is simply too precious to let go down the drain.

Children Gathering Water, Iraq

Photograph by Karim Kadim/AP

In a war-torn landscape, the broken water pipes of Baghdad’s Sadr City allow children to fill their containers, but waste much of the area’s meager water resources. For many Sadr City residents, the water situation improved when a new water treatment plant came online in 2009.

But piped-water systems in Baghdad and many other parts of Iraq and the world are expensive to maintain and require power to drive their pumps. Breakdowns in such infrastructures, caused by warfare or simple wear and tear, restrict water supplies and cause contamination.

Girl Carrying Water, Darfur

Photograph by Ron Haviv/VII/AP

A weary girl carries water for her family in a refugee camp outside Nyala, North Darfur, Sudan, during the summer of 2005. Some 2.7 million people were displaced by the conflict in Darfur, which appeared to be easing toward a close in early 2010. Refugee camps lack basic infrastructure, and residents must spend much of their time on survival tasks like finding clean water.

United Nations officials say each person on Earth requires 5 to 13 gallons (20 to 50 liters) of clean water a day for drinking, cooking, and keeping themselves clean. Refugees must make do with far less, and are often dependent on aid groups or governments to deliver water by truck.

Source: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/freshwater-conflict/#conflict01-carrying-water-darfur_13144_600x450.jpg