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3. WATER IS LIFE SAFE WATER IS LIFE START PRESENTATION FOR STUDENTS HERE.
SLIDE 5 – SAFE WATER IS LIFE
First Click – WATER IS LIFE
Ask students if they agree or disagree with this statement.
Ask students if there are cases where “water is NOT Life.”
Ask for instances when water is unsafe.
Disease? Toxins? Pathogens?
Second Click – SAFE WATER IS LIFE
Click slide– “Safe Water is Life”. Highlight the fact that ‘safe water’ – water that is clean and does not contain any harmful pathogens, toxins or disease – is what gives us life – makes us healthy.
Explain that in this lesson, students will be exploring the impacts that unsafe water can have and why the international community sees safe water as one of the ‘core’ necessities of sustainable development.

4. What is the impact of unsafe water?
SLIDE 6 – WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF UNSAFE WATER?
First Click – What is the Impact of Unsafe Water?
Have 25% of the class stand up.
Explain that if your class was the world, all of the people standing are drinking fecally contaminated water. That is 1.8 billion people in the world today who are drinking fecally contaminated water.
Second Click – Image taken by a CAWST staff member working with clients in Nepal.
Ask the class to describe what they see in the image.
Third Click – 1.8 billion people are drinking fecally contaminated water.
Ask class what they believe the impact of not having access to safe water would be?
Potential impacts:
Illness – diarrhea – missed school/long term health impact on children – stunted growth & inability to absorb nutrients from food.
For adults – illness could mean missed work, or having to pay for medicine for their ill family members.
Illness can impact a family’s ability to be prosperous/move their family out of poverty.

5. Water & Poverty SLIDE 7 – WATER & POVERTY
Introduce the ‘Water Poverty Cycle’ to students.
Highlight how families with access to safe water, in developing countries, are much more likely to be able to work, go to school and provide for themselves.

6. WAter Sanitation Hygiene
WATER, SANITATION & HYGIENE (WASH)
WAter Sanitation Hygiene
SLIDE 8 – WASH – Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene.
Explain that WASH is the acronym for ‘Water, Sanitation & Hygiene’.
You can share these definitions with the class:
Sanitation:  “Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and feces (It) also refers to the maintenance of hygienic conditions, through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal” (WHO, 2013).
Hygiene:  “Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases” (WHO, 2013).
Focusing on all three areas can improve health and many other development issues (life expectancy, gender equality, school attendance).
Explain that when focusing on water, all three of these elements must be taken into consideration.
For example, if a person has access to safe water, they may still be getting sick because they are not washing their hands.
You may want to return to SLIDE 7 to show the healthy side of the Water Poverty image.
World Health Organization (2013). WASH Annual Report.

7. Source: World Bank Groupu
Ask students what the message of the cartoon is? Ask them to include evidence from the cartoon to support their argument.
Analyzing this cartoon can be used as practice for the Source Analysis Assignment that they will be completing at the end of these lessons.
Source: World Bank Groupu

8. WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right of water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights.
SLIDE 9 – WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT (Handout #1: The Human Right of Water)
Have students look at the handout with a partner.
Ask students:
What is the most interesting/shocking statistic shared on this page?
Note:
MDG #7 (Environmental sustainability)– Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation”. While the world has met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water, five years ahead of schedule, it is important to note that someone can have access to an improved source (a well), but that source can be unsafe (contaminated).
Worldwide 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation. Despite progress, 2.4 billion are still using unimproved sanitation facilities, including 946 million people who are still practicing open defecation. (Source:
Educator note: Consider reading prior to class – this article examines the difference between ‘improved’ and ‘safe’ access.
Source: un.org

9. SLIDE 10 – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
In 2015 – the United Nations put forth the Global Goals for Sustainable Development to achieve three pretty amazing things by 2030 – end poverty, combat climate change and fight injustice and inequality.
Global Goal #6 -- to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
The goal is that by 2030, everyone on the planet will have access to safe and affordable drinking water. Note that the language has been changed to ‘safe’ as opposed to ‘improved’.
The international community also hopes to improve water-use efficiency and to improve water quality by preventing pollution of water sources.
SO….achieving safe water for all people is both a Global Goal AND a Human Right.

10. COMPARISON: CANADA & NEPAL
DEBRIEF
In what ways can inadequate WASH create a barrier to achieving sustainable prosperity for one’s self, family or community?
First CLICK – Introduce the ‘Comparison – Canada & Nepal’ activity.
Distribute Handout #2 Country Comparison – Canada & Nepal
Give students minutes to work through Handout #2 – Comparison: Canada & Nepal.
*Educator Note: Ensure that you go through the statistics first to ensure that you have an up-to-date set of numbers (the numbers on the key are from 2015). You can also highlight the fact that the statistics report on improved and unimproved water and sanitation. Remind students to keep in mind the difference between safe and improved sources.
Second CLICK - Take up the first two questions as a class.
Third CLICK - the final question – the ‘overarching’ question will appear. Discuss with students ways that inadequate WASH can create a barrier to achieving sustainable prosperity.
Possible discussion points - loss of income, inability to go to school, often girls stop going to school during and after puberty if their school does not have proper latrines, infant mortality (and infant malnutrition – this can impact the growth and cognitive development of small children)….

11. WHAT ROLE DOES GLOBALIZATION PLAY?
Boys are are collecting their drinking wáter. Pause. Click (red circle). That is a sewage pipe.
Explore the impact that globalization can play in the struggles that developing nations have in ensuring adequate WASH for all of its citizens.
Rapid Urbanization & Limited Infrastructure
In developing nations, the move towards urbanization (to find work) means that cities become crowded, putting pressure on the cities infrastructure. Municipalities are not able to create proper infrastructure to support the growing population.
Large international donors, looking to invest money into developing nations often support large infrastructure projects which can not be sustained, once the money dries up. As a result, pipes/structures break, but the municipality can not afford repairs.

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