Water For The Future
Hasanuddin University by Safara Nurul Laela Wairoy, Karina Jesslyn Sung, Richard Holman Matanta, and Esther Yuliana Natalia
Background Human’ s body is 60 % consist of water, which make it necessary for our survival. With almost everything we do is related to water, contaminated or lack of water is a real threat. Properr water safety planning is highly needed to ensure availability and sustainable management of health and sanitation for all. Even so, WHO stated that 663 million people( 1 of 10 people in global population) lack access to safe water that could lead to water transmitted disease. Diarrhea, cholera, dysentry, typhoid, and polio are some water transmitted disease and contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 502.000 diarrheal deaths each year.
Indonesia as the 4 th most populated country has to improve concern in water problem. It is already proved that 80 % of illness in developing country are linked to poor water and sanitation problems. However, common people still have low awareness in conversing water we use everyday. Realising it’ s a problem, water safety is urgent problem to save not only for now, but also for future needs of human race.
Objective 1. To make people realise how important water is and imform the impact of lacking water 2. To raise awareness about conserving water 3. To show people some simple way to conserve the water 4. To decrease the prevalence of water transmiteed disease