23. 104,695 WaterCredit loans made
597,000 People have access to clean water and
safe sanitation as a direct result of WaterCredit
99% Loan repayment
89% Women Client
4 Countries with WaterCredit
(India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda)
28. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water
related disease
3.5 Million people die each year due to
inadequate water supply
1.8 Billion people gained access to improved
sanitation facilities between 1990 and 2010
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SPECIAL GOOD MORNING TO OUR HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS.
WATER ENERGY NEXUS.
The water-energy nexus[1] is the relationship between how much water is evaporated to generate and transmit energy, and how much energy it takes to collect, clean, move, store, and dispose of water.
The energy sector may be the largest water consumer among all industrial sectors. As long as there is a surplus of both water and energy, we do not realize the close relationship between them. When any of them gets limited, it becomes necessary to consider their interdependence. Most of us realize intuitively that all water operations will require energy. It is less obvious that all energy production and generation also require a lot of water; for the extraction, refining, and electric power generation. As a consequence, water and energy systems and operations have to be planned together. Already there have been many negative consequences of water or energy systems being planned separated from each other.
Recent concerns about, on the one hand, rising food prices and food security and, on the other hand, increasing water scarcity, climate change, and the high proportion of water used in agriculture are drawing attention to the urgent need to improve water management in both irrigated and rainfed agriculture.
Drip Irrigation.
WATER CONFLICTS / WATER WARS
War over Water (Bolivia) - also known as the 2000 Cochabamba protests
War over Water (Jordan river) - tensions between Israel and the Arab League in late 1960s over water supply from Jordan river basin
California Water Wars - were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists
Water wars in Florida
Tri-state water dispute - is a water use conflict between the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin
India – Pakistan
WATER STEWARDSHIP
Companies like Coca Cola, PEPSI, Nestle,etc.
WATER POVERTY
Being in water poverty means that your nearest source of water is far away, unclean or unaffordable. Around the world, 783 million people are in water poverty.
Water is so fundamental to every aspect of life, that water poverty affects people in many other ways – children fetch water instead of going to school, women are trapped in endless hours of back-breaking fetching of water and people suffer from fatal and debilitating water-borne diseases.
WOMEN & WATER
The results?
EducationIncreased girls’ school attendance, level of education and literacy rates, as they no longer need to miss school to secure water for their families and have adequate and separate sanitation facilities.
HealthImproved health for women and girls who no longer have to delay defecation and urination.
Reduced child and maternal mortality as a result of access to safe water, sanitation facilities and improved hygiene during child birth.
Increased dignity and reduced psychological stress for girls and women particularly when symptoms associated with menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth can be managed discreetly.
Reduced physical injury from constant lifting and carrying heavy loads of water.
Reduced risk of rape, sexual assault, and increased safety as women and girls do not have to go to remote and dangerous places to defecate or to fetch water during the night.
Socio-Economic OpportunityIncreased recognition of women as having skills and knowledge outside the scope of their traditional roles.
Strengthened voice for women in their families and communities to negotiate their own needs.
New opportunities for women’s employment as well as greater autonomy and independence.
TOILETS
More than 40% of the world's population does not have access to a toilet. These 2.6 billion people, most living in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, face the daily challenge of finding a bush, train track or empty lot where they can urinate and defecate in relative privacy.
Between 1990 and 2008, the share of the world's population that had access to basic sanitation increased only 7%, to 61% of the world's citizens. In many developing countries, mobile phone penetration is expanding at a faster rate than sanitation. In Tanzania, for example, half the country's citizens have mobile phones, but only 24% use an improved sanitation facility.
Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of World Toilet Day, a day set aside not simply as a celebration of this most venerable and useful of technologies, but as a way to draw attention to the crisis and some possible solutions.
This sanitation crisis is not only an affront to dignity. It results in the release of hundreds of tons of feces and urine each day directly into rivers, lakes, landfills and oceans, creating an immense human and environmental health hazard. Every day more than 4,000 young children die from sanitation-related illness. Fully half of the hospital beds in the developing world are occupied by people whose ailments can be traced to poor sanitation.
HYGIENE
inadequate availability of water for hygiene, and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88% of deaths from diarrheal diseases
Worldwide, soil-transmitted helminths infect more than one billion people due to a lack of adequate sanitation 10.
Who’s Working in the Water Space?
Governments, multilateral agencies, non profits, foundations, think tanks, academic institutions, etc.
Water purification In general the methods used include physical processes such as filtration, sedimentation, and distillation, biological processes such as slow sand filters or biologically active carbon, chemical processes such as flocculation and chlorination and the use of electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light.
WATER TECHNOLOGIES
SLING SHOT
All of these purifiers work by vapor compression distillation. Kamen once ran down a partial list of what this process can purify: the ocean; water laced with arsenic, poison, heavy metals, viruses and bacteria; liquid at a chemical waste site; or the contents of a latrine [source: Comedy Partners]. Remarkably, all it takes is boiling and re-liquefying water at precise temperatures
MICHAEL PRITCHART’s Lifesaver Bottle is a good example.
The bottle's interchangeable filter can purify between 4,000 and 6,000 litres (1,050 to 1,585 gallons).[2] It filters out objects bigger than 15 nanometres—including viruses, bacteria, and heavy metals.[3][4] The carbon filter does not require chemicals.[4] The process of filtering the water takes 20 seconds, allowing for 0.71 litres (1.5 pints) of water to be filtered.[4] Once a filter has reached its limit, it will not allow contaminated water to be drunk.[4] The Livesaver bottle has been used by soldiers for drinking water as well as cleaning wounds.[
A much larger version of the Lifesaver bottle, called the Lifesaver Jerrycan, has the same filtering technology. The can allows for the filtration of 10,000 to 20,000 litres (2,650 to 5,300 gallons).[7]One jerrycan filter can provide water for four people over a three-year span.
WATER POLICY
Some of you have already dived deep in the water issues and have come out ceremoniously.
Ilse Gayl - Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors @ OneRain – The Rainfall Company
OneRain’s products and services support critical decisions by providing the highest quality most accurate measurement of rainfall and its consequences, and providing the best tools that enable their clients to manage their missions in Flood Warning, Dam Safety, Reservoir, Stormwater and Wastewater Management
GSP projects – TellWell
H2O2
Neisho
Sensoria
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE?
If these 3 stats are not enough of a reason then THERE IS ‘NO REASON’
