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Water an indispensible element to life
Neerindi amyadhu ulagu’ a simple
Tamil proverb says it all. Without water and air we cannot
think of life. No organism can thrive with our air and air,
especially water. All living organisms on earth are made up
of small functional units called cells. Cell is basic unit
of life; more than 90% of cell is made up of water. Water in
fact serves as a medium for all metabolisms to take place in
the body. Again blood is made up of 1/3 of cell and 2/3 of
plasma. Plasma contains water and protein in absolute
equilibrium.
Naturally Earth is made up or we
can say covered by water to the extent of 70% area. Water is
naturally cycled through plants and evaporation and falls on
to earth as rain. Water is the main ingredient for
maintaining temperature. Water is in all the three states
–liquid, solid as ice and vapor as moisture; but formless.
Water is indirectly used to
generate power and operate engines with steam power; for all
cooking and cleaning purposes. Again it has to be water in
its purest form.
It is very important, needless to
say, that we consume pure water. For the same reason it is
our responsibility , as Human being who exploit the natural
resources to the advantage of Human beings, to preserve
water in its purest form for the benefit of all the living
beings.
It the quality of water that
affects the purity of air and the contaminated water when
evaporates pollutes atmosphere and impacts the degree of
temperature. Its Global warming the most used buzz word in
recent times is because of polluted air caused by
contaminated water. Contaminated water causes epidemic, some
time to uncontrollable proportion.
Society at large not just the
Governments have has enormous responsibility. We must live
not at the expense of other life but we must enjoy living
with other lives; helping other lives to live happily and
lead a healthy life too. We have responsibility to our
future and to our children who will have enjoy their.
What is to be done? Each one of
us should think in terms of not just contributing to
conserving water and preserving its purity but restraining
ourselves from contaminating the water even inadvertently.
We can do a few things like not
draining effluents in to water or ground without treating
them, not turning agricultural lands into industrial lands
and felling trees in case of Industries. Each one of us must
take vow to plant at least one tree in a year. Plenty of
social and charitable organizations like Rotary and Lions
clubs have thrust programmes and targets for planting
saplings. Let us thank such organizations and participate in
their programmes that are for protecting environment.
Afforestation or preserving forest lands and growing trees
on the hill slopes to prevent water from flowing down into
sea is there in Government Programmes with the assistance of
International organization, especially Scandinavian
countries contribute generously towards this and helping the
developing countries in their aforestation programmes.
Let us know water and purpose of
preserving its purity ;let educate our children ; let us
contribute to the extent possibly ; let live a healthy life;
let us help other living being live a healthy life and let
us together save the earth by preserving the purity of water
so that our children shall enjoy.
Water quality : Theme of World Water Day 2010 :
It is still a reality that an
estimated 1.1 billion people rely on unsafe drinking-water
sources. Therefore the theme of World Water Day 2010 is
focusing on raising awareness of water quality under the
theme "Clean Water for a Healthy World". IRC International
Water and Sanitation Centre offers a wide selection of
documents looking at the different aspects of water quality
such as water treatment, health and technology. This
information is for instance, available via the IRC digital
library, the Source Newsletter and on the IRC web site.
In the digital library 22
documents show up after typing water quality and health in
the search box. You can click on the links to access the
publications. Go to the digital library documents. The
Source Newsletter also regularly publishes articles on water
quality and you can do a search in the most recent issues to
find information on this topic from around the world. Source
news items selected. There are a number of practical
publications on the IRC web site that you can download and
read. There is an FAQ sheet on household water treatment.
The booklet Smart Water
Solutions gives examples of small-scale innovative
technologies to increase access to safe drinking water.
The popular publication ‘Small
Community Water Supplies: Technology, people and
partnership’ links water supply science and technology with
the specific needs of small communities in developing
countries. It has one chapter dealing with water quality and
quantity and gives guidelines for different levels of
service (Chapter 4). And another chapter
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