Today is World Water Day, which is celebrated every year on 22nd March. The first important recommendations on issues related to water and
water resources were formulated at the United Nations Conference on Water held in 1977 in Argentina. After the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the UN General Assembly with resolution of February 22nd, 1993 has decided that the 22 March of each year is commemorated as World Water Day, and on that day, around the world, attention to the problems related to water and water resources is particularly drawn. Water is the source of life and it covers four-fifths of our planet. However, drinking water is often unavailable, and polluted water represents a threat. Every day 4,000 children die from diseases caused by unclean water. Every day, an average household spends about 50 liters of water for flushing toilets, one in six people on earth doesn’t have 20-50 liters of fresh water needed per day, and due to lack of water 3,800 children die daily. According to estimates, 1.1 billion people lack access to drinking water and 2.4 billion live without basic sanitation.
After oxygen, water has the second most vital importance to the organism. Of all the substances in our body water is the basic substance and regulates all important processes in our body. In adult normal weight person water makes over 60% of body weight and in newborns over 75% of body weight.
It is known that water is constantly lost from the body, and this loss must be compensated. However, many people do not understand the importance of water in daily nutrition and how it affects our health, so they do not take recommended daily dose.
If you did not know, everyone should take at least 6 to 8 glasses of 2 ml of water per day. It is advised that 2/3 of your total daily fluid intake should be water. Given that water is the most accessible and cheapest remedy, its regular intake should not be ignored.
Interesting facts about water:
• One liter of oil
can contaminate two million liters of water.
• In developing countries, 80% of disease is ssociated with water.
• Five-minute shower spends about 100 liters of water.
• Canada has 25% of the world’s water.
• Today, there is around 100,000 chemicals in the world, most of which falls in the water.
Therefore, cherish the water.