User:Jwoodjr/Computers and Society/CIS2 Grand Challenges

Topic: Provide access to clean water.

http://thewaterproject.org/

1.) The water project group is a non-proft organziation providing water to communites in Sub-Saharan Africa who suffer from lack of clean water, and sanitation. Also the have been helping communites, and villages of Saharan for the last seven years gain access to clean, and safe water by providing training. Another thing they help people is by digging wells, constructing dams, and filter surface water. The water project is the voice of the poor people of Saharan Africa, and the one billion people around the world without clean water and sanitation.

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/sustainabilityreport/world/water-stewardship.html

2.) This group is very popular to a lot of people which is "Coca-cola" who are providing clean, and accesible water to people without it. They do this by creating there very own global system which they recycle wastewater. Also to mitigate water related risk to their global system and communites without water the yrequire all their plants to undergo a local source vunerbility assement.

http://waterislife.com/

3.) This group is mostly about impact, and what i mean by that is they show supporting people, and donors how lives are changes by providing clean water, and sanitation to villages, schools, and communities who have access to it. Also WaterisLife works with non-profit, and local government to fund it's organization.

All the groups who I have listed above have not fully succeed, but some have been able to change people lives around the world. One day I believe it will be possible to provide clean accessible water, and sanitation to people without it. One way water groups have been to achieve some success is with technology, such as LifeStraw which is a personal mobile water purification tool. Another cool technology gadget is a SlingShot which takes bad water and makes about 1000 liters of drinking water. Therefore to conclude all the information and examples listed in the paragraphs above should indicate why I chose this as my topic.

Do you know if any other water resource that help bring clean water to people around the world? If so who? Do you personally think one day we will be able to provide clean water to people without it?