water water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Tate Reeves said late Monday that he's declaring a state of emergency for Jackson's water system, and he issued the proclamation Tuesday. He said they have been spending $300 a day for bottled water in the past month. Emerson and his wife, Jennifer, own the upscale Walker's Drive-In. 'They are making it impossible for us to do business in Jackson, Mississippi,' restaurant owner Derek Emerson told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The city of 150,000 had already been under a boil-water notice for a month because the Health Department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems. Parts of Jackson were without running water Tuesday because flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants. Mississippi's capital city is grappling with multiple water problems - too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.

People need to open their air tight brains and address this issue which needs and immediate attention! It’s not just a job of government, so criticizing it won’t help! But people don’t know that if every one will save water in any way, it will be a huge benefit, but alas! That’s then problem with humans! Until unless their won’t be absolute 0 of anything, they won’t understand.īottom line remains: It does not mean if we can afford it we have a right to waste it.JACKSON, Miss. The CWMI report also states that by 2030, the country's water demand is projected to be twice the available supply, implying severe water scarcity for hundreds of millions of people and an eventual six per cent loss in the country's GDP. Most urban areas will have to import water from further distances unless measures are taken to improve water use efficiency, reduce leakages, adoption of appropriate water tariff. It has been estimated that by 2050, more than half of India or an estimated 800 million people will be living in urban India. This world is already dealing with a global pandemic and I hope we don’t want another big pandemic coming which would be water scarcity! ⚡️159 million people still drink untreated water from surface water sources like lakes or rivers.Īccording to the Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) report released by the Niti Aayog in 2018, 21 major cities (Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and others) are racing to reach zero groundwater levels by 2020, affecting access for 100 million people! ( I think everyone knows it’s 2020 because we aren’t stopping our-self from cursing it due to COVID and other things going on )! ⚡️In 90 countries, according to the progress they are making which is basically too slow, they will not reach universal coverage by 2030. ⚡️If we talk about India, it has only 4% of world’s fresh water but its home to 18% of total world’s population. ⚡️The average woman in rural Africa walks 6 kilometres every day to haul 40 pounds of water. ⚡️Every day, more than 361,000 children under age 5 die from diarrhea attributed to poor water and sanitation. In urban cities I think every household gets 24*7 water supply, if not then at least they would be getting twice a day or once at least everyday? Some areas of mega cities like Delhi and Mumbai are privileged to get more that than the standard municipal water norm of 1 50 litres per ca-pita per day (lpcd) while other areas get 40-50 lpcd. * Why people do not think once about the people who are dying because of water scarcity?

* How are people not analyzing this water scarcity issue? People do not get water to drink! They have to walk kilometres to just get a single bucket of water.Īccording to WHO more than 844 million people lack basic drinking water access and 2.1 billion or some 3/10 people lack access to clean drinking water. I think everyone has read this poem in their schools but don't remember it I guess. Here we could reference it with sea water, as 97% of earth's water is ocean. What does ' Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink' mean? This is from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and is used to suggest that despite being surrounded by something, you cannot benefit from it.

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink