Water is Vital for Life

Clean water is vital to human life. No one could survive it for more than a few days. Although the earth's fresh water reserves are plentiful, over ninety-eight per cent of the supple is locked into polar ice-caps and glaciers or underground aquifers. Both industrial and developing countries are becoming increasingly concerned over meeting their domestic, agricultural and industrial demands for water and are in unanimous agreement on the need to work together to make clean water available to everyone. The United Nations General Assembly has designated the 1980's as the "International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade" with the goal of providing clean water and adequate sanitation to all by 1990.
Children bathing and fetching water from a river in Cave valley, Jamaica. Rivers are one of the main sources of usable water. [No exact date]