• Question: Is it true that by 2030every one would be drinking fresh clean water?

    Asked by Dylan Lynch to Aisling, Colin, Laurence, Ned, Niamh on 3 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Ned Dwyer

      Ned Dwyer answered on 3 Mar 2016:

      I hope so. But to achieve that we need to reduce poverty in the world a lot. In many developing countries many people have to walk miles each day to collect water and often it is not clean. One thing I worked on with schools in Kenya is you get kids to fill one litre clear plastic bottles with water, which might be contaminated. You leave the bottles in bright sun for 8 hours amd then they can drink the water as all the bactetia have been killed! There are great engineering solutions out there but you need support of politicians and money to put them into action on a big scale

    • Photo: Aisling Shannon

      Aisling Shannon answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Hi Dylan, It would be amazing if that was true, but I guess it depends on how much can be done in the developing world to solve the problems there with dirty water. Hopefully technology can play a big part in solving this problem. The work that Ned is doing is amazing, sounds like he is going a long way to helping that 2030 target a reality.

    • Photo: Laurence O'Rourke

      Laurence O'Rourke answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Hi Dylan, I think that if everyone is not drinking fresh clean water by then, we as mankind (and the engineers that address such challenges) will have failed. Water is the basis of human life, it’s everywhere around us, and also in space (including in the comet Rosetta is orbiting).

    • Photo: Colin Shirran

      Colin Shirran answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I really hope so. It’s not like we can’t provide clean water to everyone, it’s just that we need to be able to have the money in each country to make it available to everyone. I feel like that is the biggest issue.

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