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My Fourth Entry (for Thursday)

In a Series of 7 for "7 Day Blogging Challenge for bloggers"

from Jenson Taylor

Picture Credit: Biju N V Colorszone

Look Around

Appreciate What You Have

Your Home, Your Loved Ones,

Friends on whom You Can Really Count,

The Knowledge You Have Gained,

Your Good Health

And All The Beautiful Thing of Life

That Are Truly

Your Most Precious Treasure.

We Can No Longer Shower Kindness on those we

Love after They Have Died

It Is Useless to

Want to Re-do

the Work That We

May Have Done

Negligently

It's Best To

Appreciate And Do

Things Well Now.

Ask God At Every Moment That Our Problems

And Concerns Never Degenerate into Feelings

Sadness and Anxiety

Be In Union With God

Who Will Provide The Courage Needd

To Be Certain of Victory In The Struggle

Because God Will Give With Abundance

What Wee Need

We Are All Imperfect

Always Praise And Value Your Family

Do All You Can To Make It Even Better

Always Praise And Value Your Work-Companions

See What You Can Do To Improve Your Environment

Insted of Isolating Yourself

Because of Weakness or Failure

Seek To Invest In True And Constructive

Friendship In Your Life

Faith In God Is Necessary

To Strengthen Self-Esteem

In Dealing With Daily Problems

Here is a wonderful Story of a farmer

who Wants to Sell His Small Farm...

Read on the story from the picture

And Then....

MY WISH FOR YOU

BE WITH GOD - AND

MAY GOD BE WITH YOU

SOURCE:

BIJU N V of Colorszone

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My Third Entry in a series of 7 for "7 Day Blogging Challenge for bloggers" from Jenson Taylor

WATER, WATER everywhere and not a drop to drink…

Though this become a saying among the people. It now becomes a serious matter of the day.

In reality almost 2/3 of the earth is filled or covered by water but potable or drinking water is still a distant reality. Only a meager 3% will come under the fresh water category. No doubt, now water crisis is a serious issue and its already a talk/discussion of the nations.

Pic by Shahid Pattani Shaik Hussain
& Rejoy Poomala

A recent study says that, “Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use.”

According to another statistics, the total area of the planet is 510,066,000 sq km. out of it the land area covers (148,647,000 sq km) 29.1% and the Ocean Area covers 335,258,000 sq km and the total water area is 361,419,000 sq km) 70.9% . Out of this 97% contains salt water and only 3% contains fresh water.

In short 71% of the earth surface is covered with water. It is clear that a major portion of the available water is not potable. It can be treated through different means like filtering and other purification systems. Though it’s a costly task now many are making salt water drinkable though different process.

According to the latest UN estimates that by 2025, forty-eight nations, with combined population of 2.8 billion, will face freshwater “stress” or “scarcity”.

We need to be more alert in using the water carefully, if we utilize it little more carefully in a measure a bit of the problems can be solved.


Lambadi women carrying water from a distant villages Pic. Credit. AFP Photo/ Noah Seeleam

Indian tribal Lambadi women carry drinking water home to Mukunda Nayak Tanda village in the Andhra Pradesh's Medak district, 200 kilometers away from Hyderabad.

On April 20, 2010. The district suffered a severe drinking water shortage,and the villagers forced to walk a minimum of 4 kilometers to fetch water for themselves and their cattle as temperatures rise above 45 degrees Celsius in southern Andhra Pradesh. On April 22nd marks the 40th Earth Day, which urges local action and increased awareness to understand and respect the environment. India, with its 1.2 billion citizens, faces challenges from rapid urbanization and industrialization, such as pollution, sanitation and water supply, as well as degradation of forests and agricultural lands, and is already the world's fifth largest carbon emitter despite a low per capita share.

( (Note by AFP PHOTO / NOAH SEELAM )

Here are some shocking facts:

* Around 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water, roughly one-sixth of the world's population.

· * In the developing countries almost 3.575 million people mostly of children die every year due to waterborne diseases associated with lack of safe drinking water, poor hygiene and sanitation.

· * Half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people who are suffering from diseases connected with the consumption of contaminated water.

· * During the past 10 or 11 years, diarrhea has killed millions of children than all the people lost to world war II. Out of this 88% of cases are connected with drinking of unsafe water.

· * If we have an improved water supply system one-tenth of the global diseases burden can be curtailed.

· * Above 6000 children die every day due to disease associated with contaminated water consumption. In this case women and children are more affected.

· * About 1.5 million child deaths happens each year is associated with diarrhea due to the consumption of polluted water. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

· * Millions of children cannot go to school as they must go for water collection every day.

Pic. Credit. UN Photo

· * Another survey says women in Africa and Asia need to travel nearly six kilometers to fetch the day’s water. That is to say in just one day more than 200 million hours of women’s time is used for collecting water for domestic use.

· * More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated which pollutes rivers, lakes and coastal areas.

Here are some beautiful scenes from around the world

in relation to this subject.