WATER
Blog Action Day 2010


In acest moment, aproximativ 1miliard de oameni de pe Planeta nu au acces la o sursa de apa potabila, curata. Asta inseamna 1 din 8 oameni!
Apa murdara/periculoasa si lipsa igienei de baza determina aparitia a 80% din boli si omoara mai multi oameni anual decat toate formele de violenta la un loc, incluzand razboiul. Copii sunt cei mai vulnerabili pentru ca corpul lor nu este destul de puternic sa lupte impotriva diareei, dizenteriei sau altor boli. Natiunile Unite (UN) previzioneaza ca o zecime din bolile globului pot fi prevenite prin simpla imbunatatire a aprovizionarii cu apa si a igienei.

Ceea ce trebuie sa intelegem este ca apa nu afecteaza doar oamenii. Este o problema de mediu, de bunastare a animalelor, de dezvoltare pe termen lung. Apa este o problema globala, care merita o dezbatere globala.

Asadar, ma alatur initiativei BlogActionDay de a sustie anul acesta problema apei la nivel mondial. Informeaza-te!

http://blogactionday.change.org/

FACTS:

• 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people.
• 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
• The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
• Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
• An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
• The ancient Romans had better water quality than half the people alive now.
• 70% of the world's fresh water supply is devoted to agriculture.

Sanitation

• Only 62% of the world’s population has access to improved sanitation – defined as a sanitation facility that ensures hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact.
• Lack of sanitation is the world’s biggest cause of infection.
• 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all.
• Of the 60 million people added to the world’s towns and cities every year, most occupy impoverished slums and shanty-towns with no sanitation facilities.

Children

• Dirrahoea remains in the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
• Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
• Diarrhea is more prevalent in the developing world due, in large part, to the lack of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as poorer overall health and nutritional status.
• Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.
• In the developing world, 24,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea contracted from unclean water.
• 1.4 million children die as a result of diarrhea each year.
  

Women

• In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs — collecting water for domestic use.
• This lost productivity is greater than the combined number of hours worked in a week by employees at Wal*Mart, United Parcel Service, McDonald’s, IBM, Target, and Kroger, according to Gary White, co-founder of Water.org.
• Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
• A study by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) of community water and sanitation projects in 88 communities found that projects designed and run with the full participation of women are more sustainable and effective than those that do not. This supports an earlier World Bank study that found that women’s participation was strongly associated with water and sanitation project effectiveness.

Disease

• At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
• The majority of the illness in the world is caused by fecal matter.
• Almost one-tenth of the global disease burden could be prevented by improving water supply, sanitation, hygiene and management of water resources. Such improvements reduce child mortality and improve health and nutritional status in a sustainable way.
• 88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene.
• 90% of all deaths caused by diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries.
• It is estimated that improved sanitation facilities could reduce diarrhea-related deaths in young children by more than one-third. If hygiene promotion is added, such as teaching proper hand washing, deaths could be reduced by two thirds. It would also help accelerate economic and social development in countries where sanitation is a major cause of lost work and school days because of illness.
  

Economics

• Over 50 percent of all water projects fail and less than five percent of projects are visited, and far less than one percent have any longer-term monitoring.
• Investment in safe drinking water and sanitation contributes to economic growth. For each $1 invested, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates returns of $3 – $34, depending on the region and technology.
• Almost two in every three people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day and one in three on less than $1 a day.
• Households, not public agencies, often make the largest investment in basic sanitation, with the ratio of household to government investment typically 10 to 1.
• Investment in drinking-water and sanitation would result in 272 million more school attendance days a year. The value of deaths averted, based on discounted future earnings, would amount to US$ 3.6 billion a year.
  
  

Environment

• Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use.
• More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas.
• The UN estimates that by 2025, forty-eight nations, with combined population of 2.8 billion, will face freshwater “stress” or “scarcity”. Our Water.org High School Curriculum.
• Agriculture is the largest consumer of freshwater by far: about 70% of all freshwater withdrawals go to irrigated agriculture.
• At home the average American uses between 100 and 175 gallons of water a day. That is less than 25 years ago, but it does not include the amount of water used to feed and clothe us.
• Conserving water helps not only to preserve irreplaceable natural resources, but also to reduce the strain on urban wastewater management systems. Wastewater is costly to treat, and requires continuous investment to ensure that the water we return to our waterways is as clean as possible.
  

Sursa: http://water.org/

Si pe final, cateva videos related acestei teme. Le-am gasit pe youtube si mi s-au parut interesante si interactive.

And remember! Save water! (si drink beer, dupa cum ar zice un coleg de munca ;))

Tu cata apa consumi? Fa-ti testul. Click aici. Media la nivel global este de 1,243 metri cubi de apa pe an.

Chiar daca footprint-ul tau este sub medie, poti face ceva sa reduci consumul de apa din casa/familia ta. Orice mic efort conteaza la nivel global. Cateva sfaturi practice de la National Geographic gasesti aici.

Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5eBfZhE4M&feature=channel

Drinking Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R_vpNQ0fJc&NR=1

Water Conservation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLf2RbxmzE&feature=channel

Muzik updates

Daca nu stiati, aflati acum ca unul din cantaretii mei preferati este Robbie Williams. Dupa mult timp, astazi am intrat pe site-ului oficial si acolo am vazut ca a aparut o piesa noua. Este in colaborare cu Gary Barlow, colegul sau din Take That. Am ascultat si mi-a placut. Versurile sunt chiar faine, refrenul catchy :)

Iata unul din ele: "there's 3 versions of this story: mine, yours and the truth".

Noua piesa se numeste "Shame" si o puteti vedea & asculta the video premiere pe site-ul lui oficial. Sau mai simplu da-ti un click aici.

Este un cantec despre prieteniile stricate dintr-o prostie si cat de pacat este ca cei in cauza isi petrec toata viata certati. Ahh.. si inca o chestie.. am observat ca expresia "throw smb. under the bus" este foarte populara. Am regasit-o ca si vers in aceasta melodie, dar am auzit-o pentru prima data cand am urmarit seria "The Celebrity Apprentice". Acolo chiar se sapau unii pe altii. Dar nu pe fatza! :))

Pana una alta, daca ati ascultat piesa si aveti vreun comment nu va sfiiti sa-l lasati :)

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Hello! Remember me?

Da, stiu, iar nu am mai scris pe blog de ceva timp. Au trecut doar 8 luni.

8 luni pline cu diverse planuri ambitioase!

Constat ca ziua de 1 este prielnica pentru scrisul pe blog, ultimul post a fost pe 1 ianuarie iar azi e 1 septembrie. Nu am premeditat momentul, pur si simplu aveam de gand sa pun pe blog poza asta cu Cookie Monster :) Era prea faina sa nu o pun aici.

Si de data asta sunt optimista cand scriu negru pe alb ca voi posta mai des pe blog. Vom vedea daca reusesc ;)) No promisses!

Sa va spun despre cele 8 luni:

1. Am terminat masterul. Ca de obicei am rezolvat multe pe ultima suta de metri dar am reusit sa termin de scris lucrarea si sa o si prezint.

2. Am fost in eurotrip. Suuuper trip!

3. Am facut rafting in Slovenia (cu ocazia eurotripului)

4. Am fost promovata la munca :)

5. Am luat niste cursuri de dans. Parca nu am chiar 2 picioare stangi ;)) totul are un sens acum :)))

6. Am participat la un vernisaj cu Scoala de Arte

7. Am creat si vandut cateva bijuterii

Iar pana la finalul anului imi propun:

1. Sa-mi cumpar aparat foto si sa exersez cu el :) Poate voi pune si aici ceva poze.

2. Sa termin de citit cateva carti

3. Sa petrec mai mult timp cu familia

Poate ar mai fi si altele dar nu as vrea sa le enumar aici.. cine stie ce se mai intampla :D

Pana una alta.. don't delete cookies! :D

Si sper sa ne recitim cat de curand!

1st sunrise of 2010

The plan on this 1st day of 2010 was to wake up early and catch the first sunrise of the year. My brother came with the idea and I signed up immediately. Quite inspiring some may say, but for me it was nothing like that. 

It was just the real pleasure of feeling the warmth of the morning sun - something that I hadn't experienced in a while since I usually wake up around noon :D 

In case you missed the sunrise, here are some photos from "Belvedere" Brasov, Romania :)

Last pic here was done while getting back home :)

Hope you enjoyed our photo session!

Go pop the question

 

Dilema din fiecare an a reaparut, si anume: "unde facem revul?"

In anii anteriori veneam cu idei sau invitatii in vreo locatie ciudata, si pana la urma reuseam sa ne adunam (cel putin cei care ne intelegem bine). Am primit si anul acesta cateva inivitatii, dar in principiu fiecare o sa-si vada de treaba lui.. the gang has officially gone under hatches.. adica a disparut din peisaj.

Mda.. o situatie expected I might say..

 

Momentan is just me and Cri with no serious plans.. Dino da nerabdator din piciorus si intreaba "what to do, what to do?"..

Ne-am gandit la varianta de a pleca pe 31 seara cu trenul la Sinaia.. ne plimbam pe acolo, ne pierdem prin multime, eventual boschetam in parc sau gara :)), cumparam o sampanie si sarbatorim intr-un loc nou. Problema e ca nu avem cu ce sa ne intoarcem acasa that night.. si nimeni nu pare interesat de ideea de a veni dupa noi cu masina in noaptea aceea :D Un gand cat se poate normal si de evident pentru un om cu capul pe umeri. Ne-am mai gandit sa petrecem in Poiana Bv.. dar si asta e un pic tricky.. Ar mai ramane garsoniera, cea care ne-a adus la inceput de 2006 atatea succese nesperate, dar nu este accesibila din motive de spatiu (s-au adunat multe acolo in ultimii ani).

 

So, this quest comes to an end. I shall be home with my family, drinking champagne from the beautiful Ikea glasses I recently bought ;)) And we shall all wake up early in the morning and catch the first sunrise of 2010.

 

I believe it will be a great 2010! And I've got some plans to make it happen!

 

 

Te spun

Astazi tata a fost in forma maxima.. plin de glume si povesti. 

Mi-am dorit foarte mult o vizita pana in Metro 2 sa ma uit de un pulover, dar nu am cartela si nici nu aveam cum sa ajung acolo. Am apelat la cei 2 conducatori auto din familie, tata respectiv fratele. Nici unul nu a vrut sa colaboreze si sa mearga cu mine.. ca e prea departe.. ca nu pornesc eu masina pentru atat.. ca e aglomeratie.. ca nu avem unde parca masina.. din astea. Si intr-un final tata zice: "Asa face si maica-ta, vine cu idei din astea.." Continuarea a fost hilara.. "Lasa ca te spun eu sotului tau, sa stie ce-l asteapta" :)) Au urmat chestii evidente precum "sa iti iei carnet si masina si sa te descurci si singura". Mda.. I guess I should.

Dupa dush, a venit sa ma verifice daca am dat drumul la ventilatorul de la baie.. haha.. I did! :D Asa ca i-am spus eu: "vezi sa ii spui si asta sotului!" :)) Si tata a trebuit sa comenteze further spunand: "da, am sa ii spun sa te verifice" :))) Prea tare!! 

Despre surub si imbus va povestesc data viitoare :p

Si motto-ul zilei:

Nu imi faceti mie program.. merg eu dupa programul meu :))

Back in business

Ha ha.. unexpected, I know :p

After writing so many posts in my mind, I thought of sharing future ones. So, here I am. Luckily I didn't forget my login name and password  :D

Horatiu


One day, o zi ca oricare alta, am fost surprinsa de inocenta copilariei..

> > Eu plec la sevici in 10 min
> unde pleci????????
> > La servici, munca :)
> esti om mare???sau esti copil?
> > Sunt o tanara fiinta.. am 24 ani ;)
> esti asa de mare eu am 9 ani.si unde stai adica in ce oras si tara?
> > :) da.. sunt ceva mai mare ca tine
> > stau in brasov, romania
> > diana
> esti o fata!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
>> da ;))