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Be Part of a Mission to Save Lives
“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, Former United Nations Secretary-General
Water is life. Yet one billion people do not have access
to safe water, and 2.6 billion people live without
proper sanitation. The world water crisis is one of the
largest public health issues of our time. Water-borne
illness is the second highest cause of childhood death
in the world. When water is unsafe and sanitation
non-existent, water can kill.
This problem isn’t confined to a particular region of
the world. A third of the Earth’s population lives in
“water stressed” countries and that number is expected
to rise dramatically over the next two decades. The
crisis is worst in developing countries like India,
especially regions like our beloved ‘Telangana’, which
is marred by additional problems, including high levels
of arsenic and fluoride in drinking water.
Falling groundwater tables, surface and groundwater
pollution, and growing and competing demands on limited
water resources have emerged as significant challenges
to the effective provision of water and sanitation
facilities in Telangana region. Combined with the
broad-scale impacts of urbanization and climate change,
poor communities have become increasingly vulnerable to
water scarcity, waterborne disease from access to water.
In spite of continuous efforts by the government,
external support organizations water problem in
Telangana still not resolved at large. Telangana
Community realizes the danger in front of the current
and the future generations, the challenges in resolving
these problems and the need for every individual or
organization to come together to fight this crisis.
Although, Telangana Community is still in its infancy
and with very limited resources at its disposal, we
still believe that we can make a difference if we, all
our members and sympathizers, come together. That’s why
Telangana Community is very keen to take up clean water,
water conservation and sanitation projects in Telangana
to help solve water scarcity and to help communities to
gain access to uncontaminated and safe drinking water.
As a first step towards this mammoth goal, Telangana
community has undertaken clean water projects in
collaboration with Rotary Club, Secunderabad, installing
water treatment plants. So far, we have successfully
completed three water treatment projects and have
identified a few more projects to undertake this summer.
We request your support and involvement in this mission.
We sincerely appeal to all our members and Telangana
sympathizers to come forward to donate or sponsor
towards a project of your choice and help make a
difference.
Every Drop Counts! Make
a Difference – Donate or Sponsor a Project |
