Water Health Educator

Promoting advocacy for access to clean water
"Water is a necessary sustenance: A person cannot live without water (Bouguerra 2006, 125). The human body is 70% water (Wagner 1994, 11), and an adequate standard of living includes a minimum of 13 gallons of water a day for a variety of usages, including hydration and hygiene (Bouguerra 2006, 125 and Stein 2008, vii).
Effective management of sanitation also relies on the adequate movement of water to carry wastes away from where people live, through pipes and canals. Thus water is needed to ensure those wastes do not cause illness (UNICEF 2008).
Practicing safe water handling and usage is imperative for health. Waterborne diseases caused by lack of hand-washing and bathing, as well as from contamination of water sources result in millions of preventable deaths over time (McDonald and Jehl 2003, 69)." (Excerpted: Snyder, S. (2010) Access to Water, Sanitation, and Public Health Services among Urban Poor in Maceio, Brazil.
Forty-percent of the world lacks access to adequate sanitation and more than two billion people, most in developing countries, lack access to quality drinking water. With worldwide water scarcity on the rise, from factors such as climate change, failed infrastructure, political conflict and physical scarcity, these issues are spreading throughout the world, reaching places such as the United States southwest and the pristine mountaintops of the north. Extractive economies, such as mining and development, are decreasing the world's access to fresh water. Corporate control of resources is making it difficult for low-income populations to afford access to water, the most basic of human needs.
Water Health Educator strives to report on the most current events concerning water, health and well-being, using the parameters set for a quality human life by the United Nations goals. We believe that our best defense against illness and ill-treatment is knowledge and information-sharing. Please join us by contributing to the Facebook forums or inviting a staff member to speak to your group or class.
Water is a human right. Quality drinking water is human life.
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- Home
- About Us
- Staff Bios
- WHE Internships
- Our Services
- Services: Curricula
- What is Water Scarcity?
- Issues: USA: National
- Issues USA: Military Bases
- Issues US:Environmental Racism
- Issues USA: Reservations
- Issues USA: Northwest
- Issues USA: Northeast
- Issues USA: Midwest
- Issues USA: Southwest
- Issues USA: Southeast
- Issues USA: Water Impairment
- Issues USA: Illegal Dumping
- Issues USA: Superfund Sites
- Issues USA: Flint, MI
- Issues: Latin America
- Issues Latin America: Bolivia
- Issues Latin America: Brazil
- Gallery: Brazil Pilot Study 08
- Gallery: Brazil Field Study 09
- Issues: Asia
- Issues: Asia in Depth
- Issues Asia: Cambodia Study
- Gallery: Cambodia Study
- Issues Asia: India Study
- Issues Asia: China
- Issues Asia: Nepal Study
- Issues Asia: Thailand Study
- Issues: Africa
- Issues Africa: North
- Issues Africa: North in Depth
- Issues Africa: West
- Issues W.Africa: Senegal Study
- Gallery: Senegal Study
- Issues Africa: South
- Issues Africa: DRC Study
- Issues Africa: East
- Issues Africa: Kenya Study
- Issues: Australia/New Zealand
- Issues Middle East: Northern
- Issues Middle East: Southern
- Issues Middle East: Eastern
- Issues Middle East: Western
- Issues: Europe
- Issues: Europe II
- Issues: Caribbean
- Issues Caribbean: Haiti Study
- Global: Displaced Populations
- Global: Tar Sands
- Global: Bottled Water Waste
- Global: Environmental Justice
- Global: Water Privatization
- Global: Offshore Drilling
- Global: Climate Change
- Global: Fracking
- Global: Desalination Research
- Global: Natural Disasters
- Global: Infrastructure
- Disease Implications: COVID-19
- Disease Implications: Water
- Disease Implications: Hygiene
- Disease Focus: Cholera
- Disease Focus: Dracunculiasis
- Disease Focus: e.Coli
- Disease Focus: Giardiasis
- Disease Focus: Hepatitis
- Disease Focus: Legionella
- Disease: Malaria & Filariasis
- Disease Focus: Norovirus
- Disease Focus: Pseudomonas
- Disease Focus:Salmonella,Typhi
- Disease Focus: Schistomiaisis
- Disease Focus: Environmental
- Disease Focus: Shigella
- Disease Focus: Tuberculosis
- Exposure: Arsenic
- Exposure: Atrazine
- Exposure: Nitrates
- Exposure: Glyphosate
- Exposure: Chromium
- Exposure: Crude Oil
- Exposure Oil: Enbridge Study
- Gallery: Enbridge MI Study
- Exposure Oil:Deepwater Horizon
- Gallery: Deepwater Horizon
- Exposure: Blue-Green Algae
- Exposure: Chemicals
- Exposure: Flouride
- Exposure: Lead
- Exposure: Acid Mine Drainage
- Learn: Water at Home
- Learn: Fun for Educators
- Learn: Documentaries
- Learn: Books
- Learn: Books II
- Learn: Organizations
- Learn: Stream Monitoring
- Learn: Field Study
- Special Topics: Food/GMOs
- MPH Fieldwork: Infant/Maternal
- GCH Fieldwork: Ebola and Zika
- Student Research: Disease
- Student Research: Env. Topics
- Contact Us