DIRTY WATER - AND NOT ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE - IS THE HUMANITY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM

CSM:World Water Day: Dirty water kills more people than violence, says UN

Saving half the water lost through leaky pipes and ill-maintained sewage networks could supply 90 million people with clean water, says a UN report released on World Water Day.

Almost all dirty water produced in homes, businesses, farms, and factories in developing countries is washed into rivers and seas without being decontaminated.

And up to 60 percent of supplies that have been purified to the point that they are potable are lost through leaky pipes and ill-maintained sewage networks, according to a report released today. Saving half of these lost supplies could give clean water to 90 million people without the need for costly new infrastructure, says the UN.

“The sheer scale of dirty water means more people now die from contaminated and polluted water than from all forms of violence including wars,” the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said.

This includes 2.2 million people whose deaths are attributed to diarrhea, mostly from dirty water, and 1.8 million children aged under five who succumb to water-borne diseases. This equates to one infant every 20 seconds.

The findings were presented during a three-day conference held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to coincide with the annual focus on clean and sustained water supplies for a human population expected to grow by 50 percent in the next four decades.

"If the world is to survive on a planet of 6 billion people heading to over 9 billion by 2050, we need to get smarter about how we manage wastewaters," Achim Steiner, UNEP’s director, said in a press release. “Wastewater is quite literally killing people.”

DIRTY H20 IS THE BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE IN THE WORLD.

CO2 IS HARMLESS.

AND DIRTY WATER IS A HIGHLY REMEDIABLE PROBLEM.

IT REQUIRES NO NEW TECHNOLOGY.

THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS SHOULD STFU RE AGW AND FOCUS ON DIRTY WATER.