Water
What’s the big deal?
Our planet is virtually covered with the stuff!
BUT – late in the eighteenth century, English poet,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to lament:
What’s the big deal?
Our planet is virtually covered with the stuff!
BUT – late in the eighteenth century, English poet,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to lament:
Water, water, everywhere
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink. (The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner)
A 2006 UN Report opines that there is enough water for everyone, but access to it is hampered by mismanagement and corruption.
Clean, safe potable water is only taken for granted in the developed world. Indeed, I do wonder why it should be, when bottled water, depending where/how you buy it, can be more expensive than gasoline.
In the poor countries of the Caribbean and Latin America, in most cases just over an hour’s flight from Florida, safe water is a scarce commodity.
Water carrying falls to women and children and invariably, this leaves them little or no time for anything else – schooling? No wonder that there is a distinct correlation between water availability and per capita GDP.
Come with us and see what we are trying to do to alleviate this problem.
