Water, for drinking sanitation and hygiene is critical for sustaining good health and avoiding disease.
By staying healthy and fit a person is better able to support and assist themselves. Drinking water is of course an essential for sustaining life. Water for sanitation and hygiene is also essential for sustaining health.
Poor water quality continues to pose a major threat to human health and is responsible for a significant percentage of the overall number of preventable deaths, and most as a result of unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene and mostly effects children in developing countries.
A significant amount of disease could be prevented especially in developing countries through better access to safe water supply, adequate sanitation facilities and better hygiene practices.
"Water and Sanitation is one of the primary drivers of public health. I often refer to it as “Health 101”, which means that once we can secure access to clean water and to adequate sanitation facilities for all people, irrespective of the difference in their living conditions, a huge battle against all kinds of diseases will be won."
Dr LEE Jong-wook
Director-General, World Health Organization.
The Oasis range of products has been specifically designed to deal with the provision of clean water in remote regions where there is a supply of possibly contaminated water.
All the units are made from robust materials with careful consideration for the ease of operation and maintainance. They are ideally suited for wide range of applications and can be transported to remote locations on specially designed eRanger vehicles or airlifted in emergency situations.
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“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation and basic health care.”
Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary-General
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
By including water supply, sanitation and hygiene in the MDGs, the world community has acknowledged the importance of their promotion as development interventions and has set a series of goals and targets.
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and program and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Target 10:Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Integrate sanitation into water resources management strategies.
Target 11: Have achieved by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Water for Life Decade: 2005-2015
UN Declares 2005-2015 “Water for Life” as the International Decade for Action and set’s the world agenda on a greater focus on water- related issues.
Source: WHO