Clean Water
800 million people have no access to safe drinking water. 1.8 million People die every year from diarrheal diseases including cholera and E coli. 4,900 people die each day. 90% of those are children under age five, mostly in developing countries. For children under the age of five, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death. According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water—that’s approximately one in six people on earth. Most of our water use is attributed to flushing toilets and bathing or showering. We Americans run our dishwashers, washing machines, and faucets, often oblivious to how much water we utilize and how easily accessible it is to us. Millions of women and children in other parts of the world spend several hours a day collecting water from contaminated rivers, lakes and open wells. People can't live without water, but too many of them will die from it. The dirty water they do have makes them sick. It robs children of hope. But it doesn't have to be that way. We know that access to clean, safe water changes lives.We know that when a well is installed for a village, girls return to school. Women begin small businesses. Men are no longer too sick to work. Fields are watered and food supply becomes more reliable. Health returns and children grow up to be productive members of their community. The cycle of poverty is broken. Lives change.
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