Either you drink the dirty water and die from that or you don't and die from dehydration. What's the point of the distinction of lack of water and lack of clean water?
?? The solution is to provide clean water. Also we were discussing about the grouping of death causes in the poster. How does the solution affect how you group that? Where is the group for literal dehydration anyway if they're are different group of death causes as you suggested?
I think “lack of clean water” combines both causes of death, for simplicity? I’m not really sure why you have such a problem with it.
Yes, I agree. Which is why I said it's impressive that there are no one dying from both lack of food & water in my first comment. It was your reply that says it's "lack of clean water" (instead of lack of clean water + lack of water). Which is a meaningless distinction that we seems to both agree now? Have you changed your mind on that one?
Is that how the statistics in this poster work? Firstly, they used different source for lack of water and hunger. Which is already kind of asking for overlapping errors. Secondly, I check the "http://poverty.com" as it mentioned in the poster and the site doesn't even mention how it get the numbers. Actually it doesn't even mention that 8000000 number on that site. Are we supposed to take this seriously?
Well I don't. I just think the numbers in this image is way too fuzzy to be taken serious from the get-go. And that's why I commented on it like it's a bad joke, which it is.
The distinction is, to oversimplify it, between living in a parched desert or living next to a toxic river or a contaminated well. In the case of contaminated water, you may not even really know that your water is contaminated with, say, cholera or dysentery on a given day, you just drink it because you must.
I would also venture to guess that most people, even in overexploited nations, have access to water of some sort. So wording it as lack of clean water is probably more accurate than lack of water.
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Either you drink the dirty water and die from that or you don't and die from dehydration. What's the point of the distinction of lack of water and lack of clean water?
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?? The solution is to provide clean water. Also we were discussing about the grouping of death causes in the poster. How does the solution affect how you group that? Where is the group for literal dehydration anyway if they're are different group of death causes as you suggested?
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Yes, I agree. Which is why I said it's impressive that there are no one dying from both lack of food & water in my first comment. It was your reply that says it's "lack of clean water" (instead of lack of clean water + lack of water). Which is a meaningless distinction that we seems to both agree now? Have you changed your mind on that one?
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Is that how the statistics in this poster work? Firstly, they used different source for lack of water and hunger. Which is already kind of asking for overlapping errors. Secondly, I check the "http://poverty.com" as it mentioned in the poster and the site doesn't even mention how it get the numbers. Actually it doesn't even mention that 8000000 number on that site. Are we supposed to take this seriously?
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Well I don't. I just think the numbers in this image is way too fuzzy to be taken serious from the get-go. And that's why I commented on it like it's a bad joke, which it is.
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The distinction is, to oversimplify it, between living in a parched desert or living next to a toxic river or a contaminated well. In the case of contaminated water, you may not even really know that your water is contaminated with, say, cholera or dysentery on a given day, you just drink it because you must.
I would also venture to guess that most people, even in overexploited nations, have access to water of some sort. So wording it as lack of clean water is probably more accurate than lack of water.