Why Bringing Clean Water to Developing Countries Is Important

Water is an essential substance for everyone in the world. We need it to drink, cook, clean, grow food, and more. When we don’t have reliable access to water, it can negatively affect our lives and limit what we are able to do. That’s particularly true in developing countries where water is an essential part of building a brighter future. In this article, we’ll talk about why bringing clean water to developing countries is so important.

The Importance of Clean Water in Developing Countries

While we often take clean water for granted in “first world” countries, nearly 25% of the world’s population does not have reliable access to clean drinking water. That is almost 2 billion people worldwide that can’t access clean water reliably. However, clean water is not only important for drinking, but for many other reasons as well.

When you have reliable access to clean water, the entire community benefits. This is because people can drink enough water each day, cook food properly and sanitarily, practice good hygiene, and properly clean and sanitize. This also helps individuals to avoid sickness caused by contaminated water, which improves overall public health and puts less stress on healthcare.

Further, clean water is necessary for agricultural needs, like irrigation for crops and water supplies for livestock. Being able to produce your own food reliably is an important part of developing as a nation. Achieving food self-reliance also means the country can produce most of the food its citizens need and not rely on other countries for it. This is a major step in the development of a country because having self-sufficient food sources improves the quality of life in the area by reducing hunger and food scarcity. It also creates jobs and additional opportunities for economic growth.

Providing developing countries with clean water is an essential, baseline step that can help them to build upon. It is a basic necessity for humans in order to survive and something that everyone should have access to. Once that happens, people in developing countries can then focus on growing and evolving to solve other issues.

At Aqua Clara, we provide access to clean water by designing, developing, and disseminating clean water technologies to benefit those who live on less than $2 per day. We also aim to provide safe drinking water by offering our Universal Cartridge Filter, which reduces many different contaminants and is multi-phasic, using several methods to fully filter and clean water. You can purchase a filter directly from our website, or from Wal-Mart, where they are also now available. 

Our Universal Cartridge Filter fits most household filter products, includes a rubber seal to protect against contamination, and will purify your home's drinking water at a reasonable price. The proceeds from these filters help fund our projects all over the world, so consider helping us make a difference by purchasing a filter today!

About Aqua Clara International

Scientists long ago discovered how to purify unsafe water. To us, the central issue has been in designing solutions that are both sustainable and scalable and that can reach the millions in need while at the same time continuing to function without sustained outside input. Our target populations are those individuals and families who live on $2 per day or less.

We are a technology transfer organization. Our niche in clean water continues to be in designing science-based technologies that utilize locally available materials where possible and then transferring what we learn to those working in areas of need. The cost of our technologies varies by country and is dependent on the prevailing costs of raw materials, such as plastic containers, PVC piping, sand, etc. Learn more by visiting our website.