HEALTH THROUGH CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
83 percent of our clinic’s patients suffer from Typhoid Fever. Our desire is to put clean water filters into homes in the community because clean water is a part of good healthcare.
Providing clean and safe water in homes will make a big impact on our patient load, leaving more time to concentrate on such things as pre-natal and post-natal care, malaria, diabetes, hypertension, and other illnesses affecting the community.
"While water is integral to sustainable development, the fact is that we are nowhere near achieving the goals we have set out."
Volkan Bozkir President of the UN General Assembly
Twitter March 18, 2021
In 2015, the UN attracted international accolades for setting Sustainable Development Goal 6 to provide clean water, safe sanitation, and access to a handwashing facility to every person on Earth by 2030.
25 percent to 40 percent of the installed pumps no longer work due to weak community maintenance
programs, corrosion, failed parts, and poor well construction.
Introduced in the 1980s, manufactured by the millions, and installed in communities across Africa and Asia, the two hand pumps are the most popular tools for lifting water to the surface from rural underground reserves.
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) reported that water drawn from hand pumps across rural regions of three West African countries contained trace levels of lead.
The principal source of the metal was brass components in pipes, valves, and faucets. The team did not evaluate health effects in communities exposed to the lead. But as Kaida Lang, the UNC Project Manager, noted in an interview, "There is no safe level of lead for drinking water, especially for children. It affects their neurodevelopment."
In 9 percent of the samples, the research team found lead levels above the World Health Organization drinking water standards.
According to the UN, there are 2.2 billion people around the world who still lack safely managed drinking water including 785 million without basic drinking water.