Heatwaves and acute drinkable water crisis in France, in Côte d’Azur and around the world! When Mother Nature reasserts her rights! This season, The Bridge Magazine is raising awareness amongst its readers about your right to know and urgent steps – extreme measures to take when drinkable water is scarce.
20 August 2024
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All of mankind’s health, youth, wellbeing and lifespan in one drop! Population’s health and lives are at risk as France experience severe droughts.
The severe water crisis in France is all pervasive, the population’s health and lives are under threat as Europe continues to experience record breaking heatwaves, Southern France has been hit by severe droughts.
It takes a drop of water to save lives!!!
But the world’s drinkable water sources are restricted as unsafe water continues to kill more people each year than war and all other forms of violence combined.
(WHO) moto is to ‘keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health. ‘
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest statistics are beyond belief:
“By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas
[…] unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene, and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 percent of deaths from diarrheal diseases, which kill 900 children under 5 years old per day or one child every two minutes.”
Even UNICEF Key Facts about water scarcity send chills down your spin:
“[…] the growing lack of available water to meet children’s needs.
Key facts
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By 2040, roughly 1 in 4 children worldwide will be living in areas of extremely high-water stress
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Some 700 million people could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030.
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Half of the world’s population could be living in areas facing water scarcity by as early as 2025.
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Four billion people — almost two thirds of the world’s population — experience severe water scarcity for at least one month each year.
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Over two billion people live in countries where water supply is inadequate.”
According to The United Nations (UN) Website: UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (officially United Nations Children’s Fund since 1953) is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
Water Pollution and its causes
Best known as a ‘universal solvent’, water dissolves more substances than any other liquid on earth. This is the reason why water is so easily polluted by toxic substances from farms, towns or factories.
Water pollution also originated from wastewater, discharged illegally by manufacturers, oil refineries, and treatment facilities, as well as contamination from leaking septic systems, chemicals from oil spills and illegal dumping.
According to The World Health Organisation:
“Researchers have estimated that every year, there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide due to infections. Cholera is an extremely serious disease that can cause severe acute watery diarrhoea with severe dehydration.”
The world’s rivers, reservoirs, lakes and seas are drowning in chemicals, waste, and plastic waste.
Poor management of urban, industrial, agricultural wastewater and sewage implies that drinkable water for hundreds of millions of people is dangerously contaminated or chemically polluted.
Clean water and sanitation is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UN-Water, the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related issues including sanitation, concluded that: Approximately 3.5 million people die each year due to inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
The amount of water a person needs does not necessarily come in drinkable liquids. It comes from different shapes and forms for instance: some of this water is contained in the food we eat, (carbs, vegetables, fruits, fish, seafood, meats …).
France re-use of wastewater, (to recover water, nutrients, or energy), is becoming an important strategy.
Countries are increasingly using wastewater for irrigation.
According to a recent report,
French President His Excellence Emmanuel MACRON announced a target of 1,000 projects to recover unconventional water (wastewater, rainwater, greywater from sinks or showers) in France by 2027.
80 of the more than 22,330 wastewater treatment plants are equipped with production facilities for reusing treated wastewater.
When drinkable water goes missing, find below urgent actions to take as extreme measures to prevent infections or dehydration in a bid to reinforce your immune system, prevent premature ageing and reduce death tolls worldwide.
Your rights to know.
Your rights to know involve being aware that your access to clean water is a basic human right and even more…
“All people are entitled to water and sanitation without discrimination […]
Access to water and sanitation are recognised as human rights – fundamental to everyone’s health, dignity and prosperity. However, billions of people are still living without safely managed water and sanitation. The right to water entitles everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use.”
In terms of how much water is recommended per day by UN? According to a June 28th 2024 report:
The correct answer is 50 to 100 litres per person per day.
This amount of water is recommended by the United Nations as a basic need such as drinking, cooking, washing, and maintaining proper hygiene.
It is important to note that the recommended amount may vary depending on the climate, culture, and other factors.
Water is vital to humans as we are made up mostly of water.
Find out what water does for the human body.
Just like edible food and fresh air, clean and drinkable water is of paramount importance for mankind’s survival.
According to medical doctors, the human body is made up of 90% of water.
The organs in the human body with the highest percentages of water are the brain (80-95%), liver (70-75%), kidneys 80-85% water each, our brains are actually 95% followed by the heart and lungs at between 75-90% each, muscles, liver, and skin at between 70-76% each, bones at between 20-25%, hair between 12-15%, toenails between 11-12%, teeth between 8-10%, and blood is 83%.
It comes as a little surprise that water and hydration play such a critical role for our immune system, health and wellbeing.
No wonder The United Nations was prompt to insert it in its charter as a fundamental and basic human right and it reads:
Each day, humans MUST consume a certain amount of water to survive.
According to medical studies, the amount of water one needs to survive varies according to their age range, gender, and geographical location. Broadly speaking, an adult male needs around 3 litres (3.2 quarts) daily while an adult female needs about 2.2 litres (2.3 quarts) daily.
Facing populations pressure and ‘megabasin’ protesters who were hoping to launch an international water movement, French President Emmanuel Macron last year drew a plan to preserve more of the precious resource, including a pledge to reduce water use by 10 percent by 2030.
Growing protests against these huge water reservoirs, that pump from the water tables in winter allow farmers to use water all year round.
Following the country’s past hottest years ever, France is once again facing drought in 2024 as drought forecast predicts for the coming months an unprecedented heat.
High temperatures and low rainfall have resulted in shortage of fresh water supply across the country.
These impacts are likely to get drier than the norm between July and September this year over the Iberian Peninsula, Southern France, Central-Northern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Southern Russia, and Northern Africa. (Algeria, Egypt, Lybia, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara).
DID YOU KNOW?
FEW IMPORTANTS FACTS ABOUT WATER:
Important facts about water
Water regulates the Earth’s temperature. It also regulates the temperature of the human body, carries nutrients and oxygen to cells, cushions joints, protects organs and tissues, and removes wastes.
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Water could be the key to finding life
And if water was the key to life?
Water is essential for life on earth as it functions as a solvent.
It is believed astrobiologists and scientists on their quest for life on other planets, were prompt to conclude that our best shot for finding eternal life is to search for water.
It is believed 96 % of all Earth’s water is in the oceans.
Almost 96.5 % of water on Earth is in our oceans, as it covers around 71 % of the surface of our planet.
Most freshwater is in ice. (More than 70% of Earth’s freshwater is blocked up in ice and glaciers and the remaining 30 percent is in groundwater).
The saltiest water in the world is found in Antarctica in a small lake named Don Juan Pond.
Drinking water helps in nutrient absorption and lubricates joints.
When we drink water, it carries oxygen to our cells enabling our immune system to function effectively and allowing other critical body processes such as waste and toxins removal and toxins.
A lot can live in one drop of water. …
Within a single drop of ocean water, it can contain billions of bacteria and viruses, fish eggs, baby crabs, plankton, or even small worms.
So, before you think you can dive on your own, with friends, children and family, for leisure and have fun, always check that the area of ocean water that is open to the public has been treated or sanitised.
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Our bodies are mostly water
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Comets are mostly water ice. There are chances that comets made regular water deliveries to planet Earth.
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Water is a big part of the blood that brings nutrients to all our cells
· In plants, water defies gravity (to make them grow and flourish)
Medical Studies have shown that when we are dehydrated, our body produces a higher histamine level, driving by so doing, allergies.
The dehydration process in humans begins before we even feel thirsty. For that reason, drinking water throughout the day is the best way to prevent this.
Water crisis and its consequences
Water scarcity limits access to safe drinking water and for practising basic hygiene at home, in schools and in health-care facilities. When water is scarce, sewage systems can fail and the threat of contracting diseases such as cholera and dehydration can emerge thus water also becomes more expensive.
The percentage of humans who have died or deceased from cholera, whether it be in war zones, remote areas, is unfathomable.
Consequences of Water Scarcity
If water is the backbone of a country’s economy, it is for a reason.
Communities who suffer from inadequate sanitation and hygiene, results in waterborne diseases.
Waterborne diseases are illnesses caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by human or animal faeces, which contain pathogenic bacteria, or by chemical compounds. From: Understanding Microbial Biofilms, 2023.
What is the water issue between France and Switzerland?
History in brief
In terms of governing water resources, France and Switzerland would work collaboratively as the Rhône River in France and Switzerland goes west towards Lake Geneva, and Southeastern France before flowing into the Mediterranean Sea.
Switzerland can be seen as the heart providing oxygen to areas in Europe as:
‘Switzerland acts as the water reservoir of Western Europe, holding 6 % of the entire Continent’s freshwater reserves. The river supplies 2.5 million people with tap water, moves goods from Lyon to the Mediterranean, cools nuclear reactors, produces a quarter of France’s hydroelectricity and sustains stretches of farmland roughly the size of Belgium.’
Due to climate change (with melting glaciers), resulting in water decline, the demand for drinkable water is wanted at an alarming rate thus further creating the ridge and problematic issues of the scarcity of drinkable water- thus the all pervasiveness of the current ongoing water crisis worldwide.
According to Thomas San Marco, director for water resources at the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) which manages hydropower, transport and agricultural irrigation along with the river for the French state claims:
The Rhône “is essential for the economy of the region, the country and Europe as a whole,”.
From an electronic point of view, suspicions arise as Bugey, ‘which supplies 40% of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region’s electricity, is driving the French government’s sudden interest in the Rhône’ due to electric scarcity.
Thus, signifying the importance of France upkeeping good relations with Switzerland due to the vitality and amounts of drinkable water they provide to Western Europe and by extension on a global scale.
The Bugey is a historical region in the department of Ain in Eastern France, located between the city of Lyon and Geneva.
It is located in a loop of the Rhône River in the southeast of the department.
The Bugey includes the foothills of the Jura mountains, and the highest point is the Grand Colombier.
It has been medically and scientifically proven that our immune system feeds off water
Water is vital for our overall health and well-being and plays a crucial role in supporting our immune system. Optimal hydration is key to maintaining a healthy and robust immune system, as it helps support immune communication, blood volume, lymphatic function as well as histamine balance.
According to the medical online dictionary, Histamine is a chemical your immune system releases. It’s mainly known for its role in causing allergic symptoms. But it has other important functions, such as: regulating our sleep-wake cycle and cognitive function. Antihistamines are a common medication that can manage histamine levels.
Drinking enough water can regulate inflammation and enhance your immune health.
Drinking enough water also prevents dehydration stress: Dehydration may stress the body, weaken and compromise our immune system’s effectiveness.
By drinking the proper amount of water each day, we ensure a more resilient immune system that’s ready to create an effective barrier to diseases and fight against infections efficiently.
Did you know?
Water enables the removal of histamines from the body as more that 95% of excess histamines are removed from the body through urine.
Side effects of not being able to drink water
It weakens the immune system
Every human should at least drink 8-ounce glasses of water every day no matter their geographical location.
Beware!
Other beverages and drinks such as artificial fruit, juice, coffee, tea, soda, and all the myriad of varieties of drinks in the market are not recommended as water substitutes, because they are produced off large amounts of sugar, salt, and other unhealthy artificial colorants.
Dehydration may affect heart health
According to the American Heart Association, high blood pressure and blood cholesterol increase your risk of heart disease.
When our body becomes dehydrated, it develops a self defence system in a bid to prevent any further severe water loss from our cells: our blood gets thicker, leading to blood clots , restricting blood flow. This may lead to an increase in blood pressure and a rise in blood cholesterol.
Dehydration increases the risk of obesity
A lack of drinkable water in our bodies slows down our metabolism. Leading our bodies to struggle to eliminate toxins, leading them to store themselves in fat cells. These cells will not release any fat until the body is hydrated so that they can safely remove the toxins stored.
By drinking on a regular basis two 8-ounce glasses of water before breakfast, lunch, and dinner it enables to increase our metabolism, decrease our appetite and promote our overall health and wellbeing.
Dehydration ineluctably leads to premature ageing
Continuous dehydration, may lead to unwanted wrinkles. If you sever your body from drinkable water, your organs wrinkle and weaken when dehydrated, including your skin: your largest and one of the most important organs.
A lack of water in your body affects the collagen (which keeps your skin firm) consequently, less collagen increases premature ageing.
Everyone should ensure to remain cool, in the shade and hydrated throughout the scorching Summer season.
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Dear ALL,
This season the importance of drinkable water ? for mankind at the heart of our editorial: ?️?
Heatwaves and acute drinkable water crisis in France, in Côte d’Azur and around the world! This season, The Bridge Magazine is raising awareness amongst its readers about your right to know and extreme measures to take when drinkable water is scarce.
All of mankind’s health, youth, wellbeing and lifespan in one drop! ?Population’s health and lives are at risk as Europe continues to experience record breaking heatwaves, Southern France has been hit by severe droughts.
The world’s drinkable water sources are restricted as unsafe water continues to kill more people each year than war and all other forms of violence combined.
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest statistics are beyond belief:
“By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas
[…]”
And if water was the key to life?
It is believed astrobiologists and scientists on their quest for life on other planets, were prompt to conclude that our best shot for finding eternal life is to search for water.
Kind Regards,
The Editor ?️?
Rachel Tcheungna
Dear ALL,
Did you know?
Water could be the key to finding life!!!
And if water was the key to life?
Water is essential for life on earth as it functions as a solvent.
It is believed astrobiologists and scientists on their quest for life on other planets, were prompt to conclude that our best shot for finding eternal life is to search for water.
Most freshwater is in ice. (More than 70% of Earth’s freshwater is blocked up in ice and glaciers and the remaining 30 percent is in groundwater).
The saltiest water in the world is found in Antarctica in a small lake named Don Juan Pond.
Kind Regards,
The Editor ?️?
Rachel Tcheungna
Chers tous, chères toutes,
Un immense merci pour tous vos commentaires et mots d’encouragement que je reçois tous les jours concernant mes articles. C’est fort apprécié.
Juste pour vous dire : si je ne réponds pas à vos commentaires individuellement, c’est parce qu’il y a une avalanche de milliers de commentaires au quotidien dans mon tableau de bord.
Je vous rassure que je vois toutes vos mises à jour et tous vos commentaires et nous, l’équipe de The Bridge Magazine ?️? vous en sommes éternellement reconnaissants.
Bien cordialement,
L’Éditrice ?️?
Rachel Tcheungna
Chers tous, chères toutes,
Une avalanche de remerciements à tous les lecteurs qui nous ont permis de faire grandir ce journal.
Notre lectorat est la raison pour laquelle je continue à m’accrocher au stylo, au crayon et au clavier malgré la pression du travail et les difficultés du Journalisme.
Merci infiniment de m’avoir donné suffisamment d’espoir pour garder allumée la flamme de ma passion pour le métier.
Toute l’équipe de The Bridge Magazine ?️? exprime sa profonde gratitude à tous les lecteurs du monde entier pour avoir contribué à notre succès.
Bien cordialement,
L’Éditrice ?️?
Rachel Tcheungna
Dear All,
A massive thank you for all your comments and words of encouragement that I receive on a daily basis regarding my articles.
Just to note: if I do not reply to your comments individually it is because there is an overload of comments in my dashboard but I do see all your feedback and comments and we, the team at The Bridge Magazine ?️? are eternally grateful.
Kind Regards,
The Editor ?️?
Rachel Tcheungna
Chers tous, chères toutes,
LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? Il suffit d’une goutte d’eau ? pour sauver des vies !!!
• L’eau pourrait être la clé de la vie !!!
Et si l’eau était la clé de la vie ?
L’eau est essentielle à la vie sur Terre car elle fonctionne comme un solvant.
On pense que les astrobiologistes et les scientifiques en quête de vie meilleure sur d’autres planètes ont rapidement conclu que : notre meilleure partie dans notre quête illusoire de la vie éternelle serait d’abord de chercher à trouver davantage d’eau douce pour l’humanité toute entière.
Près de 96,5 % de l’eau sur Terre se trouve dans nos océans, car ils couvrent environ 71 % de la surface de notre planète.
L’eau la plus salée du monde se trouve en Antarctique, dans un petit lac appelé Don Juan Pond.
Bien cordialement,
L’Éditrice
Rachel Tcheungna