In the next few months, the world’s population will tick over 7
billion people. In this fantastic clip from National Geographic,
we see how, why, and what that means for us. The clip raises the
challenges of water and sanitation, and leads us to ponder how
the world will cope with an expected population of 9 billion by
mid-century. But we would like to take these thoughts a step
further to ask, “what can we do about it?” As we’ve noted
previously, around 884 million people lack adequate access to
safe and clean drinking water and over 2.5 billion lack access
to adequate sanitation. One of the targets of Goal 7 of the
Millennium Development Goals is to halve these numbers by 2015.
Below are a few ways we can make that happen. - Support
organisations working to improve access to safe and clean water
and adequate sanitation in a sustainable way. NGOs like WaterAid
work with communities using a mixture of low-cost technologies
to deliver lasting results. They also have projects that empower
and provide a platform