Okay, it was World Water Day on Friday, but with all these world days, sometimes I get lost. Because, yes, we have to admit it, there are a lot of world days. By the way, I propose a world day for organic lingerie... no, it's okay, it's a joke (OK, not necessarily very funny).
In fact, when it comes to water, many times, we don't feel concerned. Firstly, because we have running water, which we can drink to our heart's content, we even find bottled water (yeah, I know it's crazy) and besides having bathrooms, we all have toilets. So we're pretty lucky. We know that.
What always surprises me are these staggering figures of people without access to drinking water. 1 Billion. Wow, that's not nothing. It's so enormous.
Another enormous figure: 2.5 Billion people do not have access to proper sanitation. And do you want to know (beware of scary figures) every day, due to this lack of access to clean toilets, 3,000 children under 5 years old die (diarrhea, cholera, dysentery). And realize that some of them don't have "real" toilets; for them, the toilet is nature.
All of this irritates me a bit, because we (yes, I include myself), people in the North, have nothing to complain about; we take long showers or baths, some even have super toilets that do extraordinary things (someone seriously explain the point to me one day). And others sometimes have to walk several hours to fetch drinking water from a well.
So yes, it won't change anything for us, next year we'll have another World Water Day, and this time, how many people won't have access to drinking water?
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