World Water Day – March 22nd

With ‘World Water Day’ coming up next month, I thought I would share this with you.

http://water.org/

Matt Damon’s Epic Announcement: In anticipation of World Water Day on March 22nd, Water.org is collaborating with partners in the entertainment industry, YouTube and their community to educate new audiences about the water crisis. Today, co-founder Matt Damon kicks things off by doing something extreme. Watch his announcement video and find out how you can get involved.

To find out more visit my previous blog:

https://mauldinfamily1.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/daily-prompt-think-global-act-local/

Some Facts from http://water.org/

More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.3

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Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.1

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Of the 60 million people added to the world’s towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.7

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780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.2

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“[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.” 9

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An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.9

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Over 2.5X more people lack water than live in the United States.2

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More people have a mobile phone than a toilet