Health Tips About Water

\"Water is life\"

Drinking enough water is probably the easiest way to prevent disease, yet it’s something that most people neglect. Blood, muscles, lungs, and brain all contain water.

As a matter of fact, our bodies are approximately 70% water, which assists in digestion, absorption, circulation, and creation of saliva. We also need water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to your organs and tissues.

Water also helps transport oxygen to your cells and removes waste. And you can help wash away pain injuries with water! Whether it’s your feet, your knees, your elbows, or your shoulders that are throbbing, you can “kick-start” your recovery in one week just by drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. That’s ½ gallon of water.

Why? Experts say water dilutes, and then helps flush out, histamine (a pain-triggering compound produced by injured tissues).

In addition, water is a key building block of the cartilage that cushions the ends of your bones, your joints’ lubricating fluid, and the soft discs in your spine. When these tissues are well-hydrated, they can move and glide over each other without causing pain

The availability of acceptable and safe drinking water in sufficient quantity is essential to sustain a healthy life for yourself, your family and your whole community.

\"Sufficient\" means that the amount of water on hand is enough for your daily needs for drinking, cooking and personal and domestic hygiene.

\"Safe\" means that your water does not contain harmful microorganisms or substances in concentration that may make you sick with so -called water borne diseases such as diarrhea.

Water is essential for local development, particularly for sectors such as health, agriculture, economic development, education and environment.

However, 748 million people in the world lack access to an improved source of drinking water and 2.5 billion people live without basic sanitation facilities. Water scarcity mostly affects less developed countries and rural areas, preventing their citizens from living a healthy and productive life while also resulting in huge annual economic losses.

To provide universal access to water and sanitation by 2030, US$ 27 billion are needed annually. Official Development Assistance (ODA) covers approximately one third of the target but 17 billion are still missing.- UNDP

According to the United Nations, as much as 80 percent of illnesses and deaths in the developing world are caused by waterborne diseases. With access to proper filtration techniques and technology, that number can be severely reduced.

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