The clean drinking water is a major problem worldly wide.The World Health Originals says tha is the VOA special English develpment report.
The lack of t more than one billoin people live in the areas where re water resoures are not available.The problem is special serious in the Aisa and p.The United Nations reported says water avablility in that areas is the second lowest in the world ,after Africa.Nearly seven thousand people in the Aias and P lack safe drining water.The UN report notes that world's pooest countries are also the ones that ues the most water for agriculture. Agriculture used about 80 percent of the water in the Aisa-p area.There has also been increase in water uesed for industry.China and India more than t their industrial water use between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand two.
The lack of clean drinking water around the world force millions of people to drink unsafe water.This lead to a increasw in diseases liked d, the second leading cause of death in child under five.Flood,droghts,pollution and climate change have created even more problem.
The M Development Goals for two thousand fifteen call for a fifty percent degree in the number of people without safe drinking water and basic s.
Scientists, governments and aid organizations around the world are increasing their efforts to meet these goals. Still, the UN says there is much work to be done.During its World Water Day obs last month it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis. Researchers at the M Institute of Technology are doing just that.The American and South researchers are investigating a new technology for tuning sea water into drinking water. The new technology is called icon concentration p. The process uses electricity to help separate electrically charged soft particals from water to make it drinkable.The researchers tested their de process on the computer chip, the science of posted stand. The chip removed ninety-nine percent of the s\\t and other harmful substances from water samples. So far, the method purifies only small amounts of water. But researchers say it may some day be avaliable as a personal water purification products.
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Sames. I'm Steve Ember.
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