{"id":4886,"date":"2019-08-27T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:30","slug":"clean-water-vital-to-economic-growth-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/27\/clean-water-vital-to-economic-growth-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Water Vital To Economic Growth: World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World\nBank says lack of clean water limits the economic growth of a country by a\nthird, adding its voice to the debate on pollution that is claiming lives\nglobally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through\nits report, &#8220;The Invisible Water Crisis&#8221;, the bank says a combination\nof bacteria, sewage, chemicals and plastics can suck oxygen from water supplies\nand transform water into poison for humans and ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto the study, the effects of the water crisis are wider, deeper and more\nuncertain than previously thought, requiring immediate attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report\nsays about 1,000 new chemicals get into the environment every year and 80 per\ncent of the world\u2019s waste water is released without treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It adds\nthat though synthetic fertilisers have transformed agriculture, they are also\nclaiming many lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXPOS\u00c9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 30\nto 50 per cent of nitrogen applied to soils leaches into rivers and the air,\nsuffocating aquatic life, worsening climate change and shortening lives through\ncontamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile\nmuch attention has focused on quantity \u2014 too much water in the case of floods\nand too little during droughts \u2014 quality has attracted significantly less\nconsideration,\u201d the World Bank says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study\nadds that the world faces an invisible crisis of water quality that is\neliminating a third of potential economic growth in heavily polluted areas and\nthreatening the well-being of humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report\ncomes a day after the&nbsp;<em>Nation<\/em>&nbsp;completed running the first instalment of the Toxic\nFlow project, which tested the quality of water in the\nNairobi-Athi-Galana-Sabaki rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It found\nthe presence of at least six deadly metals and a host of life threatening\npollutants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>POVERTY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto the World Bank study, when biological oxygen demand \u2014 a measure of how much\norganic pollution is in water and a proxy measure of overall quality \u2014 crosses\na particular threshold, the GDP growth in downstream regions drops by as much\nas a third because of the effects on health, agriculture and the ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ninstitution says it assembled the world\u2019s largest database on water quality\ngathered from monitoring stations, remote sensing technology and machine\nlearning to come up with the report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/health\/Clean-water-vital-to-economic-growth\/1954202-5249330-lmr9rb\/index.html\">full\narticle<\/a> on Daily Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The World Bank says lack of clean water limits the economic growth of a country by a third, adding its voice to the debate on pollution 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