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Moderate Causes
Topic 1: The Impact of Reduced Clean Water
Speech 2
A delegate from UAE would like to say…
The water crisis has often hit several areas so that the population's water
needs for household, agricultural, and other basic needs are not fulfilled. The
direct impacts of the lack of water demand include failure to cultivate crops and
harvest which causes disruption of food supplies, poor sanitation, and hunger
which has an impact on the emergence of diseases due to lack of food and
malnutrition.
Closely related to the water and food crisis is poor sanitation which is also a
problem for around 2.0 billion people in the world. Many diseases due to the
crisis of water and poor sanitation, such as diseases caused by hunger,
malnutrition, cholera, typhus, and dysentery are still a threat to most of the
world's population.
According to a report by FAO (2000), about 2.0 million people, mostly
children from several poor and developing countries, die each year from these
diseases due to water scarcity and hunger. The water crisis can also disrupt
regional and national economies.