Water Poverty

Section Comm 103

Org. Pattern: Problem-Solution

Rhetorical Audience: people who care about other people life

I. Introduction

A. Narration: Imagine living in a home without running water, not being able to take a shower because you don't have water, not being able to flush your toilet because you don't have water. Imagine that you have to walk four hours to get water that is ultimately contaminated. This is the reality that 2.5 billion people across the global face every single day, from Asia to Africa to America. Yes America, do you know that there are still people in the United States without running water?

B. Thesis: As I watched some videos from National geography channel. The poorest people in the world actually pay some of the world's highest price for drinking water, and the water they get is less clean and less plentiful. And this poverty is a problem and every problem needs to be solved.

C. Preview: Today, I will state water poverty problem, and I will give you a solution so all we can contribute as people who care about human dignity and future life.

II. Statement of the Problem

1. Define the problem

So, what water poverty means?

a) Description of problem: Being in water poverty means that your nearest source of water is far away, unclean or unaffordable. Ways people get their water in the development countries:

* Walking long distance to a lake or river. Some people would say they enjoy this kind of walking because it's from their cutlers. However, not with a big gourd or some sorts of container with 25 kg.

* Using water pump

* Digging underground for water

* Collecting rain water that might be unclean like acid rain

This problem

Now, you might ask yourself, what are the causes make these people

suffer with this problem.

b) Causes: water supplies are contaminated not only by the people discharging toxic contaminants, but also by arsenic and other naturally occurring poisonous pollutants found in groundwater aquifers. Geographic isolation and a lack of political will also are factors. According to Katti Gray's article "not all American have enough water", in U.S, particularly in Mississippi Ninety-seven percent of residents there are connected to a water system. The residents of Sunflower, a city in Mississippi, belong to the other 3 percent. More broadly, they are counted among the roughly 2.5 million people that have insufficient water or no running water at all. One of Mississippi citizens say, "We haven't heard from nobody. Nobody has contacted us. There must be some kind of holdup". It's a real problem when you have 2 million people in one of the wealthiest nations in the world who are without complete access to indoor plumbing facilities and water services.

These hard causes leads to harder effects,

c) Facts: water poverty effects on children who fetch water instead of going to school. Women who are trapped in endless hours of back-breaking fetching of water. And people suffer from fatal and debilitating water-borne diseases. Thus, The United Nations Children's Fund shows that about 1, 8 million