Will There Ever Be Clean Water and Sanitation?

For my MDGs third action project, I was told that I had to write a poem. The poem topic had to be about a specific issue on the Millennium Development Goals or Sustainable Development Goals and I chose SDG 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all. I researched the topic extensively and how it affects people around the world. I also have experience researching this topic in another course that was mainly focused on water. As I researched this topic I have now seen and read things that caused me to become passionate about the subject. Therefore, I decided to choose this topic to present the subject to give people a better understanding. As my research became in-depth I was an able to become inspired to visualize the topic and present it as a visual.

A.R (2017) The Difference in Water

The image presented above is a representation of water and sanitation. This symbolizes how different the things that we have are compared to the resources that unfortunate people may have. The reason that I drew the radiation symbol was to catch the attention of the eye and show how dangerous not treating the topic can be. The water that is dirty and dark is to symbolize the lack of resources some people have. The clean water is a representation of the resources that we have. I also added a face with a tear drop to the spigot because I wanted to show emotion and how depressing it is.

Will There Ever Be Clean Water and Sanitation?

Clean Water and Sanitation is what we need, without it we will starve of water and cleanliness

A thousand children die every day due to preventable water and sanitation related diarrhea

       An issue that has never been cured, can be deadly and leave children unsure if they will live the next day

While our children live day to day playing and

thinking of the next day

A total of 2.4 billion people lack in having their own sanitation systems

and how should we be

oblivious to the fact that while we grow they fall

Shouldn’t we all have access to water and

support resolving the water scarcity that affects more than 40 percent on the globe

Allowing for people to walk for miles

in order to gather a drop of water and it’s a bother to drive minutes to get our bottled water

If we don’t take action, we will be responsible and possibly create a deadly sanitation related diarrheal disease

Stockholm’s World Water Week Program is giving and providing resources to help who’s in need

As they give, we take for granted and

We can all make a difference if we support these types of groups and step up to our responsibilities

If we can do that then we will hopefully have a chance to cure these helpless people

Sources:

So, Jae. "Facing Up to the Global Water Crisis." The Guardian, 31 May 2017,

www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/aug/31/tackling-global-water-crisis.

United Nations. "Water." United Nations, 21 Dec. 2015, www.un.org/en/sections/issues-

depth/water/.

United Nations. "Water and Sanitation." United Nations Sustainable Development, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/.