The 5 Tops

Top five world problems:

1. Sanitary water
2. World hunger
3. Lack of education
4. Arms race
5. Gender equality

Solutions to above world problems in order of practicability:

1. Building and maintaining wells
2. Providing funds to build schools and train educators
3. Teaching locals ways to grow crops
4. Implementing laws that protect women from discrimination (developing countries), and updating current laws that call for gender equality to better facilitate fair treatment.
5. I don't have a solution for arms race because I don't think there's a technical way to solve a country from dangerously advancing weaponry.

I chose sanitary water as the top world problem because water is the basis for human life. If someone doesn't have access to it then every other problem soon becomes obsolete. If a child gets education, health care, equality, or freedom what does it matter if he/she is going to die of dehydration or diseases related to unclean water. I think sometimes water is overlooked as important which is funny because if you look at every major city or any ancient villages they all have one thing in common, they're near a body of water. I also believe that solving the water crisis is the easiest to implement because of the relatively low costs of building and maintaining a well. "The Thirst Project", a nonprofit organization, builds wells in Swaziland and has tied the access to clean water to decrease in mortality, an increase in community health, and an increase in child education (those who previously had to spend all day gathering water instead of going to the local school). The children who spent eight hours a day collecting unsanitary water were mostly girls, which means they now have a chance to get an education increasing the likelihood of a more gender equal outlook in developing countries.Though some of these countries have finite underground water resources, as technology develops so does the access to more water. For example, there is now a water bottle that captures humidity and liquefies it. Soon technology could find a way to make finite sources of water more sustainable.