Today, 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries, defined as nations that withdraw 25 per cent or more of their renewable freshwater resources to meet water demand.
Category: Factoid
Plastic Pollution
Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas.
Waterborne Diseases
190 million children in 10 African 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 – according to a new UNICEF analysis.
Drainage Basins
Georgia includes 14 major drainage basins and 70,150 miles of rivers, streams and ditches.
$1 a day
About 1 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day, considered to be the threshold of absolute poverty.
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) killed at least 1,836 people and caused 81.2 billion dollars of damage making it the costliest natural disaster in US history.