SDG - 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Why is clean water and sanitation important? This question has been asked for centuries. The answer is simple, but it can be difficult to understand why. For starters, dirty drinking water contains many harmful bacteria which can make people very sick or even kill them. Dirty water also poses a health risk because it can carry diseases that are not easily spread through other ways of transmission such as air or contact with objects.

Although clean water and sanitation may seem like a luxury, it actually has many benefits for society. For example, it is important that everyone in the community have access to these services because it helps to reduce diseases from spreading from person to person. This will not only improve the quality of life for people in developing countries but also ensure that they are able to work day-to-day without worrying about whether they will get sick from something as simple as dirty drinking water.

Finally, clean water and sanitation can help with economic development; this is because healthier citizens make up healthier communities. A population with good overall health means more working hands and brains fewer sick days! When you stop to think about it, clean water and sanitation are simple things that can have a massive impact on the world.

Why is it important?

• Saves lives since dirty water and poor sanitation kill more people than any other human-made disaster

• Improves hygiene and reduces medical bills

• Protects the environment by reducing pollution

• Provides healthy, safe drinking water for all

Sanitation is important for maintaining hygiene, cleanliness, and health in the community. It helps prevent waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea, dysentery, etc.

How Important It Is to Have Clean Water?

• Having clean water is as important as having clean cooking gas, as it also kills millions of people.

• It helps to provide a healthy environment

• Without proper sanitation and drinking water facilities, 50 to 60% of communicable diseases will be caused.

• Diseases caused due to the lack of availability of safe drinking water and proper sanitation kill more people than all forms of violence including war combined.

• In 2016 alone, 548 thousand people died from diarrhea which was attributed to dirty water and poor sanitation.

• In many communities across the world, women spend up to 6 hours per day collecting dirty water from rivers or other polluted sources for their families’ everyday needs – only to spend hours more later boiling it for drinking.

• Women and children are 14.5 times more likely to die during disasters caused by dirty water.

• Diseases caused by the lack of clean water can harm infants even before they are born.

How does sanitation affect us?

Sanitation facilities play an important role in creating a clean environment across communities.

• Proper disposal of human waste prevents disease, infection, and soil degradation

• It reduces the number of flies that could spread diseases like cholera, typhoid fever, etc. through contaminated food or unwashed hands

• Sanitation services also provide safe havens for birds which helps control insects like mosquitoes that transmit diseases

• Water is used more efficiently

• Water conservation helps to reduce the number of water-borne diseases