Week 11- PSA Idea

For my PSA I would like to do something about the environment and encouraging students to be aware of environmental events they may face in their future.  Three facts or statistics I will focus on are water sanitation, waste disposal, and food production.
Water, sanitation and hygiene has the potential to prevent at least 9.1% of the global disease burden and 6.3% of all deaths ¹.The impact of clean water technologies on public health in the U.S. is estimated to have had a rate of return of 23 to 1 for investments in water filtration and chlorination during the first half of the 20th century ⁵.

 http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html







 





Are we over run with garbage?  What changes can we make to make a difference?





"In its new report, Growing a Better Future, Oxfam says current trends indicate that the world's population will reach 9 billion by mid-century; meanwhile, the average growth rate in agricultural yields has almost halved since 1990. Left unchecked, the gap between food demand and supply will continue to widen.
"The food system must be transformed. By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on the planet and demand for food will have increased by 70 percent. This demand must be met despite flatlining yields, increasing water scarcity, and growing competition over land. And agriculture must rapidly adapt to a changing climate and slash its carbon footprint," wrote Robert Bailey, Oxfam's senior climate advisor, in the report.
Climate change has already driven up food prices in many areas by causing drought and desertification, Oxfam reports, and of all the factors contributing to rising food prices, it will create the most serious impact of all in the coming decades."     http://twitter.com/#%21/nattyover
http://www.livescience.com/33311-food-prices-global-hunger-skyrocket-2030-oxfam-warns.html