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Water Statistics

Annual child deaths due to dirty drinking water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene - 2.2 Million

Number of people without easy access to safe drinking water - 1.1 Billion

Number of people without easy access to decent sanitation - 2.4 Billion

Malaria Statistics:

Around 3 - 5 hundred Million cases

2 - 3 Million deaths estimated per year

Around 90% of all deaths occur in sub - saharan Africa

Waterborne diseases: caused by the ingestion of water contaminated by human or

animal faeces or urine containing pathogenic bacteria or viruses; include cholera,

typhoid, amoebic and bacillary dysentery and other diarrheal diseases.

Water-washed diseases: caused by poor personal hygiene and skin or eye contact with contaminated water; include scabies, trachoma and flea, lice and tick-borne diseases.

Water-based diseases: caused by parasites found in intermediate organisms living in

contaminated water; include dracunculiasis, schistosomiasis, and other helminths.

Water-related diseases: caused by insect vectors, especially mosquitoes, that breed in water; include dengue, filariasis, malaria, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis and yellow fever.

Estimates suggest that between 52 and 118 million people, mostly

children, will die between now and 2020 from preventable water-related diseases.

I decided to look further into life threatening diseases due to contaminated water in the third world countries. After watching the videos I have found on you tube, I felt that this issue is something that can be helped and prevented given the financial ability by other countries that are more advantaged. Every day people from all over the world take water, food and good hygiene for granted. Watching these videos of people suffering with hunger, thirst and disease gives me a sense of guilt, knowing what I have is subconsciously taken for granted everyday.

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This is a poster I have designed to create Malaria awareness for third world countries. The mosquito is the main reason malaria is spread. I have read that Malaria is not only spread through biting people. It is also spread by the mosquito's breeding in the water that these people drink. The only source of water they have.

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I have also designed this poster and added more information about malaria, to show how many deaths are caused by the disease each year.

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I have put these images together as examples of how children are suffering in Africa due to ill health from the contaminated water.

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I have found these videos on you tube. They are based on poverty and talk about how people suffer from hunger thirst and disease. They also explain how farmers can not harvest crops due to drought. Less food for the community leads to mass starvation. Again food is something that is taken for granted and plenty of food is wasted in more advantaged countries.


(Click December Label for more videos for research)

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The theme for this project is water. I started my research by looking at water under different circumstances, such as floods, tsunami's and water related diseases in Africa. During this project major flood warnings had been issued for Cumbria. A few days later Cumbria flooded leaving thousands of people devastated. Homes had been ruined, Lives had been lost. Although these floods were major floods for England, these floods are small compared to floods that happen in other parts of the world. The Tsunami that struck Thailand and the far east completely destroyed everything and everyone in its path. This made me realise that natural disasters can not be prevented but helped afterwards.
Water contamination can be helped by other countries and charity concerts etc. This is how I decided which pathway I was going to look further into.