Happy World Water Day everyone! This is the day we celebrate Water and also acknowledge that we have a long way to go to serve the needs of all that require this most precious life giving substance. Even here in the US, we have folk who do not have access to adequate supplies of pure, healthy water.
Worldwide it is even a bigger problem. It is no exaggeration to call it a global crisis. Those of us in the industry know the figures all too well:
- Almost 1 billion people, about 1 in every 8, wake each day without access to pure drinking water
- Over 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation
- 5,500 people die each day due to lack of safe water - that's one almost every 15 seconds
- Most of those that die are young children
- Water related deaths outnumber war, hunger, AIDS or natural disasters
And it is preventable. We have the technology. What people lack is access and resources.
Tomorrow, I will be walking in the annual Walk for Water, held by Water Missions International. Water Missions International is a local non-profit with global reach. They are dedicated to helping solve the water quality issue. Through skid mounted, solar powered filtration systems, they can provide water for thousands of persons per unit. I will be joining thousands of participants in walking 3.5 miles, shorter than the 4 miles that many women travel every day to gather water for themselves and their families. We will ge gathering a bucket of water at the half way point and then walking back, to add our bucket of silty water to that being treated by a Water Missions International unit.
If you would like to help Water Missions International, you can go to my link at: http://walkforwater.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1037521&supid=378705676
For more information on the global water crisis and how Water Missions International is working to help, check out their website at: www.watermissions.org/
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