Water 2

It is interesting to look at water, and look at how it is being used and abused. I am learnign a lot from my new book:

It is expected that by 2025, because of Global warming, 2/3 of the World's population will not have ready access to clean drinking water. Currently there are a lot abuses happening around the world with the distribution of water, for example in poorer slum areas of Bangladesh people pay 250 times the price of municipal water...

Its not all bad news though. Many communities have banded together and are coming up with creative, innovative and sustainable ways to collect and preserve water, so that communities can survive. Examples include:

1. In some communities in South Africa children's merry-go-rounds have been installed. These are designed in such a way that children using them can play, and pump water form the ground at the same time, thus children's pla is providing water for the whole community.

2. In Kenya people are designing and using rooves to collect rain to provide water for communities.

3. In Chile mist nets have been set up, to catch mist, which is then condensed and rovides water for the communit.

4. In bangladesh women fold saris in such a way that they act as a filter for water. 99% of cholera germs can be filtered out this way.

I think that it is interesting how we look at things such as water, which are so pleantiful here in New Zealand...