Wednesday, April 4- European Union

Wednesday, April 4

"Between 2006, and 2010, the European Commission plans to invest 230 million euro into 97 water projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific states as well as using international trade bodies to try and pull in private sector investors to build pumps, wells and pipes in deprived zones." An article the EU Observer posted on March 22 entitled "World Water Issues to Play Second Fiddle in EU's Own Backyard" begins stating that everyone in the union is aware that water shortages will cause worldly problems in the near future. These problems are not expected to be small on any means, but huge. It is already a fact that 465 million children are dying in the droves from dirty water-linked gastro-enterological disease in places like the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and Far East. The Union is aware that these problems are going on around them in surrounding countries, and perhaps it is not affected the union yet, but it will eventually. They are going to invest money now to try and help stop it rather than let it continue at the rate that it is today without doing anything about it. The melting Himalayas are posing a huge problem, and I don't know exactly what this money is going to do to stop it, but hopefully they come up with a plan. Also, hopefully they can get the US and China to agree to help stop this pollution problem within their own countries, because children are dying and it needs to be stopped. The investment in trying to stop this is necessary, so I'm glad that at least the European Union knows this.

http://euobserver.com/19/23760