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Why Water - Learn about the water crisis and how you can help

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Water scarcity and poor water quality are issues for many communities around the world. To try and improve the way UK businesses use water, WWF has created a water stewardship report to help businesses assess their risks and use water stewardship steps to tackle them. We helped them spread the word by creating this animation. 

Client: WWF
Creative Director: Tom Tapper
Producer: Segolene Meheust
Animation Director: Luke Marsh
Design & Animation: Luke Marsh, Kirstin Smith
Sound Design: Serafima Serafimova / Audionetwork

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Follow water around the world in the read aloud of One Well

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Understand Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation (Primary)

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Access to Clean Water and Sanitation: A Guide To Global Issues | Global Citizen

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Newsela | Reinventing the toilet for a cleaner world

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Human waste is a big and deadly problem in developing countries. More than 1 billion people go on the ground. And over 1 million people die a year from water made dirty by feces.

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SDG 6 for children – Clean Water and Sanitation

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Newsela | Instructional Content Platform

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men. He and his company, Microsoft, helped make computers cheap and popular. So what's he interested in now? Toilets.

Mr. Gates's work at Microsoft helped bring easy-to-use computers to people around the world. And it made a fortune for Mr. Gates.

But Mr. Gates stopped working at Microsoft years ago. He and his wife created a group called the Gates Foundation to focus on helping people around the world who are poor and live in unhealthy conditions.

You might not think much about what happens after you use the toilet, but it's important. Getting rid of human waste (poop and pee) is called sanitation. In much of the world, toilets are connected to a system of pipes called sewers, which take the human waste and water away. The waste is removed and the water is treated and cleaned.

But what if you didn't have a toilet? Or what if your toilet wasn't connected to running water? That's the way it is for almost half the people in the world - about 4.5 billion people.

It's not just gross. It's dangerous. Without running water, there's nothing to take the waste away. It's hard to keep things clean and healthy. Human waste contains many dangerous germs that can make people sick. Around 500,000 children under five die every year because of bad sanitation.

In 2011, Mr. Gates created the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge". He wanted people to invent toilets that could work where there was no running water. The Gates Foundation gave $200 million to work on this problem.

Last week in Beijing, China, Mr. Gates held a special meeting, showing off about 20 new kinds of toilets. The toilets can work in places with no running water.

Most of the toilets separate and treat the waste to create clean drinking water. The new toilets usually burn the solid parts of the waste. Some are able to create electricity. Others make a fertilizer which can help farmers grow their crops.

Right now, the toilets cost a lot of money. Mr. Gates says that the new challenge is learning how to make the toilets cheaply enough so that everyone can have a safe, healthy toilet to use.

The Gates Foundation is giving another $200 million to work on the problem. Mr. Gates has also gotten businesses and banks to bring more money to the project - perhaps as much as $2.5 billion.

Even though Mr. Gates's main goal is to bring sanitation to people who don't have it, he hopes businesses will see toilets as a great way to make money.

When computers became something that everyone wanted, Mr. Gates helped make them cheap enough so that most people could buy them. It made him rich. Now he's hoping someone else can do the same with toilets.

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Bill Gates: We Need to Invent Better Toilets - News For Kids

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Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men. He and his company, Microsoft, helped make computers cheap and popular. So what's he interested in now? Toilets. Mr. Gates's work at Microsoft helped bring easy-to-use computers to people around the world. And it made a fortune for Mr. Gates.

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This is a series of provocations designed to provide resources for students to inquire into the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. For more, click here.
The first challenge in helping students inquire into the need to provide clean water and sanitation is to recognize what a privilege it is to have! These resources are intended to help them consider this global goal and how they might help.
Resource #1: G R A N T E D by Michele Guieu Resource #2: Why Water by CharityWater Resource #3: Global Citizen - Water & Sanitation by BRIKK #Resource #4: Water Stewardship by Nice & Serious & WWF Resource #5: The Water Princess by Susan Verde, Georgie Badiel & Peter Reynolds

Provocation Questions:

How is clean water important to humans?

How is sanitation important to humans?

Why is clean water scarce for so many people? How does this scarcity impact an individual? A family? A community?

What is our responsibility to manage water well?

featured image: DeathToTheStockPhoto

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Inquiry Into SDGs: Clean Water & Sanitation

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This is a series of provocations designed to provide resources for students to inquire into the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. For more, click here. The first challenge in helping students inquire into the need to provide clean water and sanitation is to recognize what a privilege it is to have!