{"id":18807,"date":"2017-04-11T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=18807"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:41:31","slug":"universities-help-to-alleviate-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/universities-help-to-alleviate-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Help to Alleviate Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water makes up 65 percent of our body mass, and we can\u2019t survive more than 3 days without it. Yet our water is in jeopardy, mostly from problems we created.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we address the urgent need for action — to ensure access to safe water, to preserve the planet\u2019s freshwater, and to fix the problems we created. We also address the role that universities have in this fight and highlight some of the progress being made around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Need for safe water<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n

Many of us take safe drinking water for granted, but that is not the case for 780 millions<\/a> of people<\/span>\u00a0around the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Lack of safe water leads to diseases and even deaths. In fact, unsafe drinking water <\/span>causes more deaths each year than violence and war<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Every minute, a child dies of a water-related disease.<\/span><\/p>\n