1. Food problem which leads to so many deaths every day around the world.
First and foremost, very less attention and awareness is given to hunger and starvation when there is plenty of food produced and available for human consumption.
There are huge gaps in between production to storage to distribution and food management.
A lot of food is allowed to be wasted at so many places: supermarkets, bakeries, hotels, restaurants, fast food chains and every other.
Where the food at the end of the day is rather thrown away than distributed amongst the needy.
Also a need for community refrigerator service in all the cities of the world should be encouraged wherein a hungry, needy person can just fetch from the surplus food pool.
If people are pretty serious about saving the lives of all those kids and adults who die in the tens of thousands every day, then we the people can easily do so - we only lack collective initiative.
However, the media also has to play an important role in bringing hunger and starvation issues to the forefront than all the unnecessary, irrelevant countless debacles and debates.
All the alarms are raised about all sorts of problems but the problems of hunger, starvation and at the same time huge food wastage globally, largely go and remain unnoticed.
It's a pity that so many people have to die in the 21st century for lack of food for their empty stomachs despite all the logistics and technology available to take the food from point A to point B and to store the food.
Humankind must revisit their priorities that we can't feed all of 8.3 billion people despite producing food for 11 billion people annually.
A general careless and callous attitude of the people who can eat well towards people who can't eat well is something to be despised.
Countries come up with all kinds of resources to wage war and yet nobody in the world seems interested in waging war against hunger and starvation and all the death stats resulting from it, every year.
Interesting !
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2. Water crisis
"Water water everywhere, but not a drop of water to drink !"
This may change to “water water no where” as water fit for consumption will always be limited.
And so much water is wasted away in industries, cleaning, washing etc .
People in cities use water with indiscretion because they don't have to go and fetch it themselves whereas, villagers who rise up early to go and fetch it from afar, know the value of every drop.
And it is not a matter of one person or one household - lots of water goes waste because everyone have their personal vehicles to clean, many of the people need to bathe with one full bucket or more of water everyday, people do clean and mop the floors of their houses, offices, hotels, malls, factories, lobbies, reception and everything else which empties buckets upon buckets of water every day.
A lot of cleaning is done using treated water rather than borewell water.
Anyways, water is precious because it may become a cause of world war 3 in 2050. And, we need to plan ahead. We just can't say that 2050 is 24 years away !
So again, awareness about this all important issue has a very restricted coverage in the media to the extent that we expect the government or the scientists to come up with something new in terms of technology like, making sea water fit for drinking rather than reducing our daily water wastages.
For the most part, that has become the status quo.
But the solution always lies in water preservation along with all other techniques like rain water harvesting.
If non - essential uses and application of water required for whatever is reduced to half globally, then we can add another 25 years and prevent and or at least delay and postpone a global water crisis from happening until 2075.
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Anuj Chugh
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