Water and Aircraft Carriers

I see from today’s newspapers that we are giving India one billion pounds in aid and assuming that’s an American billion, and not a ‘real’ billion, it’s still one thousand million pounds of our money (which is a one with 9 noughts behind it).

Now I’m all for helping those who can’t help themselves but………

India is currentley buying an aircraft carrier from Russia at a cost of 3.4 billion US dollars, plus an additional $1 billion for the aircraft and weapons systems and is going to order 29 MiG-29Ks for around $1.1 billion, a total cost of 5.5 billion US dollars - plus it is building two more new carriers at 6 billion dollars each, which equates to a total cost of about 17.5 Billion US dollars and which will give India the world’s second most powerful carrier fleet, at a time when we can’t even afford to run one aircraft carrier.

Now according to The Water Project Inc, providing clean water costs $10 for one person for ten years which means that if you divide $1,7500,000,000 by 10 you get 1,750,000,000, which equates to providing clean water for 1,750 million people for 10 years.
India’s population is 1,189 million, so the cost of the Indian aircraft carriers would provide all India’s population with clean fresh water for nearly 15 years!

I wonder what India will spend our £1000,000,000 ($1612,450,000) on, clean water provision maybe?