Reese Piena
09 July 2021 Current Event Analysis The Unfinished Battle for Drinking Water Security in Post-poverty Rural China By Jiayuan Wang, New Security Beat China - Mar 18, 2021 Summary: The Huangzhong district in Xining city, the capital of Qinghai Province, houses 8,980 families, who are all in poverty. But, in April 2019, they removed the “poverty alleviation county” label. MyH2O is a non-profit organization that connects communities with clean water solutions. The organization’s mission is to help villages across China have safe drinking water. In 2020, they sent out a survey to a school and had the kids take the survey. The highest problem listed in the survey was “water supply interruptions”, 63.5% to be specific. Drinking water security is a relatively low-visibility issue in China. It’s always overlooked by government officials. But, MyH2O is trying to put an end to it with “a data-powered interactive platform that provides water quality data from 938 villages in China”, as it says in the article. It’s called the H2O Map. MyH2O will rely on the Map’s data to help them make sure that all 8,980 families have access to water. Geography Theme: This article is related mostly to Human-Environment Interaction out of the 5 themes of geography. Human-Environment Interaction is when humanity affects the environment. The reason why this is the most related is that it’s not just China that has these problems. Maui had a drought not too long ago. It’s happening to us literally in our home. It’s all thanks to us speeding up climate change. But, we’re also not helping clean water sources by dumping toxins into them. Even into the ocean. That’s why it’s Human-Environment Interaction overall themes. Reaction: My reaction to learning about China and MyH2O scares me, but also gives me hope. First, it scares me because if you think about it, this could happen to us soon rather than later if we don’t appreciate the water that we have access to now, and we take for granted that it’ll always be there. But, if we’re irresponsible and we waste water, and we don’t do something to help keep our environment and water sources clean, they’ll be gone before you know it. But, MyH2O gives me hope because it shows that there are people that do care about the people and the environment enough to create a non-profit organization like MyH2O and actually doing something to conserve and provide clean water for their communities. We should take this into account to prevent this from happening in our communities. Connection/Analysis: The theme of World History that is related to this article is that it trains us to gather evidence and to find patterns and trends. The MyH2O organization created something called the H2O map. What it does is it gathers information of drinkable water sources and MyH2O uses the data and finds patterns or trends to make sure that everyone has drinking water available to them. They also had to have data on how many people needed water in the communities so that they know how much water they need to provide. So, those are two examples of how my article relates to this theme of World History. References (APA): Jiayuan Wang. (2021). The Unfinished Battle for Drinking Water Security in Post-poverty Rural China. New Security Beat. https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/03/unfinished-battle-drinking-water-security-post-poverty-rural-china/
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