95% of the world’s designers focus all their efforts and developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers.
In what ways can you make a difference? Acting in order to alleviate the suffering of those lacking WATER in order to improve people’s lives and standards of living. All humans share this basic need. Why has is taken so long to consider DESIGN as a word to be applied to the ingenuity of those living without what most of us take for granted?
Its use has been growing at more than the rate of twice of human increase in the last century. ž of the world’s population could be under stress conditions due to water scarcity in 2025.
(thousands)
Each day, 6000 children die from drinking unsafe water.
January 2011
THE OTHER 90%, HAS NO ACCESS TO PURCHASE CLEAN, SAFE WATER.
live without basic sanitation.
will have no water in 2025, living in regions with absolute water scarcity. children will die every year.
have no access to clean, safe water.
WATER USE in domestic use. for industry.
50L. of water a day are necessary for a person to ensure his or her needs.
In the next 20 years, humans will use
for irrigation.
more water than they do nowadays.
Amount of water carried per day:
This reduces any time that people have for another productive work or for children to attend high school.
60 40 20 0
boys
girls
men
women
Distribution of those who collect drinking water.
WOMEN shoulder the largest burden in collecting drinking water.
DISEASES due to unsafe, dirty water:
In BILLIONS.
HALF OF THE WORLD’S POOR
Dirty Water
are suffering from water-borne diseases. The same half that are hospitalized, is because of unsafe water.
of the Earth’s water is salt water.
If this water �illed a bucket, only ONE teaspoonful would be drinkable.
diarrhea
cholera
intestinal worms
trachoma
443 million school days are lost each year due to water borne diseases.
CLEAN WATER The following can reduce diseases:
less diseases using clean water.
reduction by sanitation alone.
less bacteria by hand washing.
January 2011