2014 WORLD WATER DAY

The major first rule of sea diving is never to take a sea dive alone,this is because you must have an instructor to guide you through the dangers.

ONLY if this can be APPLIED to the way we make use of water and also disposal of our waste product.

• It will be of great danger if we take our environments out of the equation in getting good clean water; this is because they are interwoven.

• The cry of good clean water is not a new gist to be sold in most nations daily news papers.

• Day in Day out the people of Africa always have a story to say in the daily pursue of a good clean water.

As we all know, this is a period to appreciate every drop of water and to reflect on the positive potential, discovery that as to be made from this liquid substance.

To get a clean water is now becoming difficult as environmental pollution is fast growing, suffocating the existence of clean water. Two major causes of water pollution are urbanization and oil spills and this two major pollution surrounds Africa.

If we are to preview this two major reasons. We will see that urbanization is fast increasing in our major cities in Africa. The demand for food supply is also fast growing due to the population increase from immigrant. In keeping up to this high demands, the use of fertilizer and sewage contaminate is very much needed, as a result to the nitrates and phosphates found in fertilizers and sewage wastes, this causes eutrophication which are harmful to the environment.

On the other hand oil spills is also infiltrating normal livelihood of water supply; in a country like Nigeria which deal with major oil drilling, oil spillage and oil product causes environmental disaster, as there are various spillage and vandalization of pipe network while transferring oil products.

Also natural location of some country like South Africa, which is situated at the very tip of southern Africa, this enable the country to be very vulnerable to oil spills because of the high levels of oil been transported from the middle east to Europe and America along the coast, making southern African’s water and ecosystem at risk to several damage.

In conclusion there are many reasons that contribute to these growing water cresses that Africa faces, such as climate change; climate change has affected water supplies within must African countries. Rains that naturally fall giving a relief to the people of Africa this days comes infrequently, for example in Durban, the dams are 20% lower than 4 to 5 years ago causing lower water supply rate in that part of Africa.

Water is life, we all know this. No blue No Green, beautiful people must eat. Water is the only free liquid substance; believe me unsafe harmful water will be easier to get than fresh Cristal clear water in many years to come, if we don’t step up individually to the day to day water polices by our action; on how we make use of water and dispose our waste product.

My people join me in celebrating 2014 world water day by drinking a notable amount of water today and also reflecting individually on the present state of African water problems of how to effect the positive change to the system.