Unsafe water leading to Poverty and Crisis!

Quality of water decides the quality of life. Access to pure water leads to the healthy lifestyle. Survival is impossible without water and health is impossible without pure water. Impurity is everywhere. We are extremely facing the era of pollution. Everything around us is polluted including water, air and environment. In such case, having pure water to drink and to use in daily life is a blessing. Water is not only the component to survive on earth but is also an important economical factor around the world. Water is always known as the natural resource and human has zero cost access to it since ages, until the scarcity of water increased so much on earth that the pure water is costing a lot to humans. Having blessed with such powerful and important resource, everyone took it for granted and now facing the adverse effect of water scarcity and contamination of water.

Water and poverty are linked to each other. Lack of safe water and poverty are mutually attacking the world. But access to consistent sources of clean water is crucial in poverty reduction. You must be thinking how unsafe water is leading to poverty?

Employment is the first necessity to earn money and to lead a life. Whether self-employed or employed by another, we have to stay healthy to do our work and be productive. Moreover, in order to earn an income, we can’t spend all our time taking carefor sick family members. For those who live without safe water, adequate sanitation, and effective hygiene practices, water-borne disease is a constant threat to health, keeping people out of the work force and in poverty. If people will not be healthy, they will not be able to focus on work, if they will not work, there will be no income and ultimately people will starve for basic needs too.

Health is an important factor for the development of the country. And for all the developing countries health has become a challenge. Whenever we talk about poverty we talk about the disadvantaged people or community of the society. Living in slums, lacking all the basic facilities and not having access to safe water and sanitation has pushed a large number of people in the trench of poverty. Poverty leads to the extreme crisis around the world. We people always lack to count the blessings we have, no one of us would have ever felt thankful for the water we drink everyday or we use daily. But if one day we will lose all the drinkable water, we will realize how rich we were. Unsafe water is resulting to the deaths and extreme health issues around the world. Developing countries including India are facing a lot of challenge. Due to lack of safe water we are not able to take care of the young generation. Man power is the strength of development but unhealthy man power becomes the weakness.

Fortunately we are so rich in man power, but unfortunately we are not able to develop health and access to safe water for all the people around the world and in our country.

                                                                                                                               

  Shweta Pant

  Mjmc- 4th