Where Is Clean Water Needed the Most?

It has been about a month since the UN-sponsored 2021 World Water Day (March 22). Let’s review what you learned about the global water crisis. Our review consists of one question. Where is clean water needed the most?

How would you answer?

• In the middle of the desert?
• In remote, rural regions?
• In the slums of major cities?
• In Africa?
• In areas plagued by drought?
• In refugee camps?

Any one of those is a good answer, but …

What is the right answer?

An insufficient amount of clean water is, without question, a global concern. The water crisis, however, is much more a personal crisis than it is a global crisis.

The clean water crisis is global only to the extent that access to clean water is limited in many places around the world. The real clean water crisis is personal.

An estimated 1.2 billion people lack access to clean water. That problem is so massive that it is hard to wrap our minds around it in a way that has a dramatic impact on us individually.

The irony is that it is at the individual level that a lack of access to clean water becomes a comprehensible threat.

We can understand a thirsty person begging for a cup of cold water. Only the most heartless among us would ignore such a person and their family. We would act on our own, moved by compassion, to alleviate their thirst and the existential threat that failing to have clean drinking water would have. We would do something for them because we can.

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