It’s easy to take the fresh, cold water that gurgles out of your tap each morning for granted. Unfortunately, not everyone has that luxury.
Today is World Water Day, and this year, the theme is “Leaving no one behind.” With the goal of ensuring acces…
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5 ways to keep plastic out of the world’s oceans
Plastic is kind of like a Twitter reply guy: It never goes away. And there’s more coming in.
Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastic go into the ocean (that’s equal to about one garbage truck per minute), according to a 2016 report by the World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and McKinsey & Company.
“Plastic is a substance that once created essentially exists almost in perpetuity and just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces in the environment,” says Graham Forbes, the global plastics project leader at Greenpeace, an international environmental organization.
It’s vital to pay attention to the plight of plastic and implement small changes in your daily life to keep plastic out of the world’s oceansWorld Water Day may be Friday, but we should be working to minimize the harm of plastics every day. Read more…
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The stats aren’t great and the future looks bleak.
More than 2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water. Nearly as many live in “potentially severely water-scarce areas,” with that number expected to rise to 3 billion by 2050. The global population and demand for water are both skyrocketing. Meanwhile, 20 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in flood-prone areas by 2050, where drinking water can be contaminated.
However, there’s much we can all do to tackle the problem and the time to act is now.
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