The Major Environmental Issue

In my opinion I think that the Earth is plagued with some pretty awful environmental issues. With the population of the world growing everyday, things are seemingly continuing to get worse. Some people say that the worse thing going on is global warming, in my opinion that's not true. I believe that the shortage of fresh water sources and water pollution are continuing to become a life threatening issue, not only to humans but to the wildlife as well. All over the world people are suffering from fresh water sources and are living with the diseases that are caused by drinking disease ridden water because that is all that is available to them. In Mexico City, just a gulf away from us, drinking anything but bottled water in even the richest places can earn you a trip to the hospital. In more than half of African countries water is so scarce that mothers have to choose between themselves and their children, and even then the water is so riddled with bacteria it doesn't really matter who actually gets the water or not.

If I was given $100 billion to work on this issue I would do a couple of things. The firs thing I would do is to take a page from the ECHO handbook and I would send the seeds of the Moringa tree to the areas in need. The seeds of this plants can be ground up and used to purify water (more on this tree in the next blog!). Another thing I would do is to send people to these places to educate the natives on how to catch catch and preserve even the smallest amount of rain water. Another thing they could be educated on is how to purify urine to become drinking water. The money I would be donated would be used to help the amount of people I could by purchasing and sending these supplies and educating them on how to survive on what the Earth and their bodies give them.


Being given this amount of money to work on this issue would be a dream come true, water is essential to even the smallest form of life and everyone deserves to have access to it.