Keep our planet hydrated and clean by Morales, Sofia

Goal #6 Clean water and Sanitation

s1743430 — 2025-08-19 20:11:48 UTC

I've traveled outside of the United States and where I've gone I saw how not everyone has clean water. These places considered buying water as a luxury and instead of buying water, they continued to drink water that contained bacteria. While traveling and drinking this water, I got stomach sick and couldn't enjoy the trip as much. While also realizing that everyone has a different lifestyle on how they stay clean, not everyone showers everyday or even washes their hands before eating. This reason is why I want to research more about water filtering and how people live with certain sanitation.

Clean water is a right

s1743430 — 2025-08-19 20:20:14 UTC

Everyone has a right and deserves to access clean water. Water should be affordable and should be able to reach communities for prices that aren't insanely high. No one should be left out from having clean water to be able to drink, cook, bathe and ect. There are thousands of deaths caused due to bad water and hygiene which is why I feel that its a topic that people should pay attention more to.

Water contains diseases

s1743430 — 2025-08-20 03:22:03 UTC

Water contains diseases that can be transmitted. Diseases that can be preventable are able to be caught by drinking poor water and having poor sanitation. Billions of people face these diseases and sometimes experience death due to them. Diarrhoeal include, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio, which cause most of the deaths.

Rotary help

s1743430 — 2025-08-20 03:32:28 UTC

Being able to access water can allow children and mothers to live their lives more fully. Most days mothers and kids would walk many miles just to get accessible water to drink and use. Children would be able to go to school and walk around freely without carrying water if something was down to help their systems. Rotary has created programs to support and create action towards helping those with problems involving unhealthy water.

Poor water and hygiene correlates to poverty

s1743430 — 2025-08-20 04:44:21 UTC

Over 2 billion people lack access to sanitation or water. The document states "poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world, especially for women and girls who spend endless hours fetching water over long distances." This basically says women have to travel different distances to access clean water which impacts their home life as they aren't to be there to help. Not only does it affect their home life it also affects their educations because they take time out of their day to get water. Other than education, it can also affect their social life due to not being able to socialize with friends more.

Poor Sanitation

s1743430 — 2025-08-21 02:49:11 UTC

Similar to poor water, sanitation also transmits diseases. Having an unsanitary way of disposing of waste can affect others too. Sharing utilities and objects with other households can also affect the transmission of these diseases. There are various people who still lack basic sanitation such as toilets, which is something that is hard to imagine cause almost everyone has access to them in America.

Sanitation deaths

s1743430 — 2025-08-21 02:58:21 UTC

The text says "Nearly half of the world’s population, 4.2 billion people, lack access to a hygienic sanitation facility" This shows that various amounts of people suffer with this problem. There are people who do their business outside. Those people are said to be one of the hardest to reach. There are thousands of deaths caused by diseases from not having proper sanitation, as well as obtaining a disease through another person with poor sanitation.

Lacking access

s1743430 — 2025-08-21 03:04:29 UTC

Over 2 billion people lack access to drinkable water. Thousands of kids die everyday due to diseases of the lack of water. Almost 2 billion people live without the proper sanitation to dispose waste while almost a billion people still dispose of human waste in the outside. Being able to obtain cleaner water and hygiene practices would allow families to thrive.

Achieve goal 6 by 2030

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 01:16:14 UTC

Goal 6 from the sustainable development goals is to have water for everyone by 2030. Either way the goal is by 2030, billions of people still lack access to clean drinkable water. People have to take time out from their daily lives just to get water for their family. This burden isn't something that anyone should go through, especially children taking time out of their education just to get something that is a right to have.

World Water Day

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 01:50:45 UTC

Every year on March 22 World water day happens. Water Day helps raise awareness to the billions of people living without clean water. Every year this day has a theme, for instance, 2023 the theme was accelerating change, in 2024 it was leveraging water for peace. I've never heard of water day until now, but if it was promoted more and talked about more, then a wider amount of people would be able to understand the struggles some people have to go through.

World water day themes

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 03:46:16 UTC

Every year for the water day a new theme is chosen based on topics that relate to clean water, sanitation and hygiene also known as "WASH". Around this day every year a report from the UN is released based on the world water. This report includes people still lacking clean water and healthy sanitation throughout the world. This year for 2025 the theme was "save our glaciers" as it is the first year where climate change has been correlated to carbon emissions.

Costs

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 04:06:27 UTC

If the SDG 6 wants to be achieved by 2030 then it would've needed 114 billion dollars a year from 2016-2030. The amount of money needed is triple the amount of what is being given, so water.org made a plan where they create partnerships in order to be able to raise money to help the millions in need. Partnering has allowed them to raise over 5 billion dollars. Even with this amount of support through companies the goal is not that likely to be obtained by the desired time frame unless more awareness is raised for this problem.

The Salvation army

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 04:15:54 UTC

The salvation army has been a great help in providing others in need with cleaner water and better hygiene in different countries. For example in north America they help families of low income by paying their water bills. In Kenya, the Salvation army helped through a drought and provided food for schools in return for lower fees. In Bangladesh, the salvation army provided hand sanitizers and better hygiene products during the pandemic in order to decrease the spread.

Rural and Urban

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 04:25:59 UTC

Eight out of ten people without basic water needs live in rural areas. In Urban areas around 62% of people have safe sanitation services, while in rural areas around only 44% of people have safe sanitation and water services. Even though urban and rural places are miles away the percentage struggling with unsafe sanitation and water are still close to each other. Businesses would have to double if this goal wants to be met by 2030.

Space technologies

s1743430 — 2025-08-22 04:32:32 UTC

Over a hundred countries wont reach the goal by 2030, but it was found that space technologies can help manage water resources. If used right satellite images can be used to find issues behind this and help manage and deliver water and sanitation. Either way clean water and sanitation is its own goal category, the achievement of this goal would also affect other goals. For example, the improvement of sdg6 would also help achieve and improve goal 3 which is related to good health. You can't achieve one goal without achieving another because it's as if you were going step by step.

Triple threat

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 02:22:11 UTC

Countries in west and central Africa face a lot of water insecurity. The top 10 countries in which this threat is impacted a lot are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Somalia. The article states that these countries "are at the highest risk from a convergence of three water-related threats – inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); related diseases; and climate hazards". This means that these countries face more deaths from children due to diseases caused by unhealthy water and sanitation.

Africa's Environment

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 02:45:41 UTC

The lack of safe water and sanitation are one of the top killers in Africa, especially in lower income areas. Just like the other article this one talks about 10 countries facing the triple threat. These countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Somalia. These countries are also in the west and central part of Africa. The article states that at least 1.21 million people die from unsafe water, hygiene, and hand washing, but from this number 44% of deaths were form Africa.

Africa's potential

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 03:05:37 UTC

Africa has a lot of natural resources but its struggle is the lack of water. Even in urban areas the quality of water isn't great. If more investments were put to grow the economy in order to add better technologies such as rainwater harvesting systems, solar filtration, and personal purifiers, then the economy would thrive more. I feel that if Africa were to get an increase in cleaner water and better sanitation it could move up in the world an become richer than some of the top countries right now due to all their resources too.

Top countries lacking access

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 03:28:06 UTC

The article Mentions the top 10 countries with the least access to clean water. These countries are Niger, Papua New Guinea,Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Uganda, Angola, and Mozambique. These countries lack between 30%-55% of clean water. Like previous articles the countries are mostly in western Africa and central, but as well a bit in the south.

Ups and downs

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 03:37:29 UTC

While economies grow, sometimes crisis occur such as floods and droughts. These crises can cause work and achievements that were done to go back to square one. For exaple an economy can be flourishing, but once a major crisis hits everything can go wrong. For instance, in Somalia after a flood many families were displaced and when they came back home their drinking water was contaminated. This negative effect made parents worry that since the water tastes different, it could affect their children.

Proposed topic

s1743430 — 2025-08-26 03:42:25 UTC

I think I want to research the lack of water and sanitation which must be addressed to reach SDG 6. I will focus on central and western Africa and its approach to install more wells and water filtering in its poorer places. I want to research this because I've traveled to countries where sanitation and water was a luxury to achieve. I've witnessed people walking miles to attain drinkable waters and to take a shower in a lake. While visiting these countries I had to adapt to taking time out of my day just to be safe with water and hygiene which isn't something anyone should go through.

Research question

s1743430 — 2025-08-28 20:03:34 UTC

How can the improvement of water filtering technologies improve the health and lives of the people living in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Sub- Saharan access

s1743430 — 2025-08-30 02:33:44 UTC

Although progress has been made as the years go by, a lot of places still have trouble with access to clean water and sanitation. A region that has been having trouble with providing safe water and sanitation is Sub-Saharan Africa. The process isn't steady and has holes so therefore not a lot of progress is made. Although there hasn't been a spike in progress, more people in rural areas that suffered more with this issue are starting to get access to better water and sanitation.