Speaker June 18th 2013

Our guest speaker on June 18th was Katherine Dobson, a member of the Inner Wheel Club of Porthmadog and a past  district chairman of District 18.  Katherine spoke to us about Water Aid.

Clean, safe water is essential  and a fundamental right of all and yet one in eight people world wide do not have access to safe water and sanitation.  The rapid rise in population in the developing world makes the work of improvement much harder.

Katherine emphasised that the work of Water Aid is WASH - Water Aid, sanitation and hygiene -  working to improve lives.

Diseases caused by drinking unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene  causes many deaths in the developing world and it is estimated that 4.000 children die each day from these diseases  and that 700,000 people die because of diarrhoea alone.  Half of all the beds in the hospitals in the developing world are occupied by people suffering from diseases caused by unsafe water and , sanitation and hygiene.

Water Aid estimates that