Last week, Marrakesh, Morocco hosted a three-day international conference, co-sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Council on Water. Water is fast becoming a major problem area, as the world competes for this essential finite resource. The fact that this basic necessity is being regarded as a commodity, rather than a natural right intensifies the problem.
More than 1.2 billion people have no access to drinking water in the world and two million others, mostly children, die annually of diseases linked to polluted water and lack of hygiene.
More than 1.2 billion people have no access to drinking water in the world and two million others, mostly children, die annually of diseases linked to polluted water and lack of hygiene.
National political policies also detract from solutions, as evidenced by the threat of war between Israel and Lebanon and the current Israeli stance prohibitting Palestinian access to clean water.
Arabic News reports that Omar Fassi Fihri, Morocco’s Secretary of State for Scientific Research, told the conference that water shortage has become a real problem facing all the countries of the world, a situation that requires urgent action at planetary level to curb the problem.
Arabic News reports that Omar Fassi Fihri, Morocco’s Secretary of State for Scientific Research, told the conference that water shortage has become a real problem facing all the countries of the world, a situation that requires urgent action at planetary level to curb the problem.