"
Team:Valencia/Society
From 2011.igem.org
(Created page with "<html><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://2011.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Arnau/valencia.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" type="text/css"></html> {{Template:Valencia-0-3}}") |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<html><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://2011.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Arnau/valencia.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" type="text/css"></html> | <html><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://2011.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Arnau/valencia.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css" type="text/css"></html> | ||
{{Template:Valencia-0-3}} | {{Template:Valencia-0-3}} | ||
| + | <h1>Our project on Society</h1> | ||
| + | As the African saying goes, “beggared water does not quench the thirst”, that is, the human right to water is indispensable for living. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Water must be treated as a cultural and social good, not fundamentally as an economic good; besides, the way that the right to water rights is exercised must be sustainable, so this right can be exercised by future generations as well as by the current ones. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Regarding its quality for human consumption, water must be healthy (salubrious) and should not pose a health risk. The importance of water being drinkable lies in the great number of diseases it may otherwise cause, with the associated mortality rates. The following chart reflects the most common diseases due to the ingestion of untreated or contaminated water. | ||
Revision as of 17:10, 20 September 2011
Our project on Society
As the African saying goes, “beggared water does not quench the thirst”, that is, the human right to water is indispensable for living.
Water must be treated as a cultural and social good, not fundamentally as an economic good; besides, the way that the right to water rights is exercised must be sustainable, so this right can be exercised by future generations as well as by the current ones.
Regarding its quality for human consumption, water must be healthy (salubrious) and should not pose a health risk. The importance of water being drinkable lies in the great number of diseases it may otherwise cause, with the associated mortality rates. The following chart reflects the most common diseases due to the ingestion of untreated or contaminated water.
