World Water Council Ends Week-Long Conference on World Water Day. By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, March 22, 2009. "The week-long meeting in Istanbul ended Sunday, which was International World Water Day, an annual United Nations event that began in 1993 to focus attention on sustainable management of fresh water resources. The yearly observance recognizes water as an absolute human need: people can live as much as 30 days without food but only seven without water. How long can a person live without oil? More than a billion people lack access to clean water, and 2.5 billion are without water for sanitation, with 80 percent of all disease borne by dirty water. This may seem ironic, since Earth is literally a blue planet when seen from space -- most of it is covered in water. But what humans need is water that is fresh and clean, and most of Earth's water is salty or dirty. What was clear at this year's World Water Council in Turkey was the notion that clean, fresh water supplies are waning due to a warming world."
2009-03-23
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