Recent news like the water scarcity in Cape Town in Africa or the one more close to home in Jackson Mississippi are stark reminders of multiple ways in ways water management is crucial. The WHO predicts that by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.
While governments across the world are looking for solutions, I feel there is also a real need for education and awareness amongst all age groups on how environmental and other factors have the potential to impact something as basic as running water. Education can be incorporated in simple ways. For e.g., In my final assignment for an Estudies course in DukeTIP I was to create an app focused on your interest, and if published could have some use. Some people created games, and incorporated maps, but my idea became somewhat original. I created an app that taught kids about water scarcity and how it is affecting the people living in the countries around us. It had a map that had small pins on different areas on the earth, and if you clicked on it, it brought up a slideshow of images of the situation people are in due to droughts and water scarcity in their area. For example, for a pin in Africa it included children in a drought affected area, digging deep to reach the small amount of water that was found underground, groundwater, that isn’t freshwater, but the only source of water they had.
I will be watching closely to see how the imminent crisis in Mississippi and Cape Town are resolved.
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