{"id":31013,"date":"2012-03-22T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=31013"},"modified":"2012-03-22T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:36:40","slug":"article_25101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_25101\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Deadly Threats to Our Precious Drinking Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/environment.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environment and Climate Resource Center page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Issues page<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\nIf you brushed your teeth this morning or flushed the toilet or had a cup of coffee, consider yourself lucky. Actually, if you turned on your tap and potable water freely came out, consider yourself truly blessed. Because so many of us in the United States are in this situation it can be easy to forget that nearly 900 million other people aren&#8217;t so lucky. It can be easy to forget that globally we face a frightening water crisis. And it can be hard to notice that even here in the US there are dire threats to our water supply right now.<\/p>\n<p>The people hardest hit by the water crisis are in developing countries &#8212; places it is easy for many world leaders (and the rest of us) to overlook. And even the number of those without clean water &#8212; last tallied at 884 million &#8212; can be hard to grasp. Here&#8217;s another way of looking at it: if you take that number and translate it into the population of developed countries, the people living in the world today without access to clean drinking water would equal all the people living in the US, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Like our economic, food, health and climate crises, if you&#8217;re a person of color and\/or poor, you&#8217;ll be hardest hit. According to the United Nations, if you are a poor person living in a slum you&#8217;re likely to pay five to 10 times more for water than wealthy people living in the same city. And so too, are women disproportionately affected because they are the ones responsible for getting water each day in most developing countries &#8212; work that often means hours of difficult labor under dangerous conditions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you brushed your teeth this morning or flushed the toilet or had a cup of coffee, consider yourself lucky. 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