A War for Water

It is the most precious commodity on earth, and billions of people do not have adequate means of obtaining it. Water both for drinking and sanitation use is essential to human life. Yet in a world where we have come so far in technological advancement, we still live amongst 2 billion people who do not have access to modern sanitation facilities and 1 billion people without safe and drinkable supplies of water. We have failed to address a problem that should have spurred world interest long ago. There are countries with millions of people, including children, dying each year due to a lack of clean drinking water and poor sanitation services. With a continuous rise in population throughout the world and an ineffective distribution of water resources, there can be as many as 140 million water-related deaths by 2025.