What was the most important thing you learned in MUN and how can MUN be applied to your everyday life?

In a Model UN class, our topic were about problems going on in the world. I can have opinions and let them out. Of course, there will be other students who would say something back and I learned how to respond back fast and in a smart way. The most important thing I learned was that Russia doesn't have clean water in the northwest and in the north. I was surprised because Russia is a developed country and I thought it would of have a good access to clean water. In some people who have tap water, it is actually contaminated with chemicals from rivers. I thought tap water was clean compared with th bottled water. Model UN can be applied to my everyday life by watching the news and getting informed of events that are happening. Like terrorism, dugs, abuse, hunger, diseases, guns, violence, and early pregnancy etc. It encourages people from around the world to have the need to know what's happening internationally. Knowing outside the world makes us have an open mind and develop our knowledge and succeed more in our thinking and if we can, take action. This class, can also encourage us to take actions like in events that are happening around the world. Model UN can also make you use the skills of thinking more than you would do and get your ideas and concerns out there in the world. Since us students are mostly in school, Model UN teaches us to write good developed paragraphs. We can use this skills in English, history, and biology essays. We get more practice and the essays can reflect our skills we applied in Model UN essays. Model UN is a class where you can develop your skills and it can be included in your everyday use and make you a more successful person.

Delegate: Katherine Rodriguez

Committee: WHO

Topic: Providing clean drinking water in sub-Sahara Africa

Sponsors:

Russia Position Paper

Thank you honorable chair, WHO is known to give aid to poor countries in need of medical situations. Who started in 1948 and has worked with children who have malaria. AIDS, measles, tuberculosis, lack of nutrition, and environmental sanitation,. However, providing clean water has been a dilemma for many people of all ages in the less developed countries. WHO has helped developing countries to have a better sanitation in clean water such as South Asia. With the help of a private company that WHO supports, water access increased from 71 percent in 1990 to 84 percent in 2002. Clean water can prevent from countless of people from getting infection. Today in the world, there are about 2.6 billion people that have a lack of clean drinking water whatsoever. The lack of clean water is killing people mostly in china, India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Peru and other countries . Clean water is needed to have a healthy life. It is one of the basic needs that human needs to survive.

Currently, in Russia, just one per cent of drinking water is clean according to researches. Few Russian towns and cities provide clean drinking water. The worst drinking water in Russia is the north and northwest of the country, especially in the areas where there is oil drilling an chemical industries that contaminate the environment. Sixty six percent of the drinking water comes from rivers and streams that have been polluted and received wastes from cities higher up. Officials have warned of increasing outbreaks of sewage-related diseases including cholera, salmonella, typhoid fever, dysentery, and viral hepatitis. In many Russian rivers, Russia’s tap water is not very clean as citizens think as when someone pours tap water in their glass, a yellowish stream of icy water sputters out, in fact, its iron contaminated from rusty pipes. Poor water management standards have raised health concerns in many cities. Russia is currently in track to develop a plan that will cost ten million dollars to make one of the largest water purification systems in the Russian federation.

Russia would like to help the project ‘The Water Project’. A donation of the dollars can help a person to have access to clean n water for ten years. Of course, our governments would like to donate ,ore than just ten dollars, since there is about three/fourths of Russian people who live in rural areas, we will make them donate an adequate amount of money according to how much they are spending on their merchandise. For example, if they spend ten dollars, an adequate amount to donate would be one dollar and ten cents. As the total purchase increases, the donation will be a bit more,. This donation will just be necessary at least two times a week. It can be from any amount. All of this money will be sent directly to water project. Since Russia’s economy has risen from 2 percent to a 7 per cent GDP, and the poverty per cent has declined from a 37 per cent to a 13 percent this past 4 years. It is possible of every person to donate to help [people in Africa to have access to clean water.

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