global water dances

We live on a water planet: 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water. But the vast bulk of that water, 97.5%, is salt water. The fresh water that humans need to live is far more scarce (not to mention all of the planet's other plants and animals that cannot survive without fresh water.) Only 2.5% of the world's water is fresh water.

And of that 2.5%, most of the world's fresh water is not easily accessible or available. A minuscule 0.4% exists in surface lakes and rivers, and as humidity in the air. A whopping 69.5% is frozen in glaciers, snow, and permafrost. And another 30.1% is in underground aquifers.

At the same time, access to fresh water is brutally unequal. One billion people, roughly one person out of every 8, do not have access to clean water.

On July 28, 2010, the General Assembly passed UN Resolution 64/292, The Right to Water and Sanitation, declaring that the United Nations "Recognizes the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights." In the text of the resolution, the UN estimated that 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. The World Health Organization's figures show that unsafe water kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. 

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am 25. juni werden mit den global water dances weltweit 24 stunden dem Wasser gewidmet sein.
location in norway: Hammerfest, ytre forsøl strand, 17.00