The most precious commodity on earth water, air and land are our most important resources, they are an irreplaceable element of our life, industry and our agriculture. Water and air are at the very heart of our existence.
According to UN, Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally and accounts for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year,polluted environments take the lives of 1.7 million children under the age of five . Air pollution and climate change are closely linked as all major pollutants have an impact on the climate and most share common sources with greenhouse gases. Improving our air quality will bring health, development, and environmental benefits.
The World Health Organization calls air pollution the “single biggest environmental threat to human health and estimates that 99 percent of the world’s population live in locations that are above WHO thresholds designed to protect human health. Air pollution is primarily caused by the burning of fossil fuels, forest fires, waste burning, mining, industrial activities and other natural factors.
An estimated seven million people die every year from indoor and outdoor air pollution.
According to the World Health Organization unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene, and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88 percent of deaths from diarrheal diseases, which kill 900 children under 5 years old per day according to new UN estimates, or one child every two minutes.
UN-Water, the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater related issues including sanitation, concluded that the major sources of water pollution are from human settlements and industrial and agricultural activities. Approximately 3.5 million people die each year due to inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Clean water and sanitation is one of the UN&rsquos Sustainable Development Goals. The United Nations is aiming to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. This goal is not only to improve human health, but also a solution to reduce the gender inequality in some parts of the world. In Africa, 90 percent of the work of gathering water is done by women and girls, who spend up to 6 hours every day fetching water. However, with the same access to productive resources as men, including water, women could increase yields on their farms by 20 to 30 per cent and lift 150 million people out of hunger.
Water is the lifeblood of human beings, and life on Earth. People depend on freshwater for drinking, cooking, cleaning, sanitation, growing food, fishing, generating energy, navigation, recreation and tourism. Safe, sufficient water and healthy aquatic ecosystems are essential for protecting health, achieving food security and ending poverty.
According to WHO in 2022 2.2 billion people have limited access to safe drinking water, and by 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas.
New Solution to the world’s greatest problem:
The Belgian company Sibelco is a global leader in material solutions and has fine the way to clean water from pollution using mineral olivine. BLUEGUARD®, a patented mineral-based granular material that efficiently removes heavy metals and other pollutants from water. BLUEGUARD® is currently being used in a pilot project with Aurubis, a leading global provider of non-ferrous metals and one of the largest copper recyclers worldwide.
According to Sibelco Sustainable mineral-based solution has an extremely low carbon footprint.Effectively removes lead, zinc, copper, cadmium, mercury, nickel and cobalt. Made in Åheim, Sibelco’s specialist production plant on the west coast of Norway. Typically achieves metal binding efficiency of 5-15kg per ton of filter material. Minimum 15 min wastewater loading rate.
BLUEGUARD® is made from magnesium olivine one of the most important minerals being considered against CO2 and water pollutions. Sibelco is global power on Olivine mining.
According to Sahit Muja CEO of the Albanian Minerals , Magnesium Olivine is one of the finest eco-friendly building block on new world capable of removing 1 trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
“Magnesium olivine is the greatest natural solution to date against climate change, rising sea levels, rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, land degradation and desertification. It’s a nature’s way of turning carbon dioxide into nutrition for all biodiversity” . Sahit Muja said.
