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30 Days of Gratitude: Day 15 - I am grateful for clean, readily available water.


“How can we go on spending obscene amounts on budgets of death and destruction, knowing full well that a minute fraction of these would insure that children everywhere would have clean water to drink? These are our sisters and brothers out there, not statistics.”
~Archbishop Desmond Tutu

www.worldwaterday.net/

The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water1. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day. In fact, out of the 2.2 million unsafe drinking water deaths in 2004, 90% were children under the age of five. Water is essential to the treatment of diseases, something especially critical for children.

This problem isn’t confined to a particular region of the world. A third of the Earth’s population lives in “water stressed” countries and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the next two decades. The crisis is worst in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The world water crisis is created by a confluence of factors including climate and geography, lack of water systems and infrastructure, and inadequate sanitation, something that 2.6 billion people (40% of the world’s population) lack access to. Some of these countries have additional problems, including high levels of arsenic and fluoride in drinking water.

Many women and young girls in rural areas in Sub-Saharan African and other parts of the world must trek as much as six miles every day to retrieve water for their families7. Due to this manual labor, such women and children are prevented from pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.

Thus, the lack of clean water, coupled with the lack of basic sanitation and a dearth of hygiene education, is one of the largest obstacles to progress and development in these regions and across the world. The UN has prioritized water access among its Millennium Development Goals because it contributes to such widespread suffering, including increased poverty, high child mortality rates, depressed education levels, and political instability. Without question, the world water crisis condemns billions of people to a perpetual struggle to survive at the subsistence level, thus inspiring millions to engage and alleviate this problem.

www.cleanwaterfortheworld.org/CWFTWhome.html

Every 15 seconds, a child dies from water-related diseases.

The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

A person needs 4 to 5 gallons of water per day to survive. The average American individual uses 80 to 100 gallons of water at home each day. The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day.

Every spent on water and sanitation creates on average another in costs averted and productivity gained. No intervention has greater overall impact upon national development and public health than the provision of safe drinking water and the proper disposal of human waste

www.nwf.org/water/waterconservation.cfm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Davidson_Fountain

The Tyler Davidson Fountain (the Genius of Water) is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is regarded as the city's symbol. Dedicated in 1871, the “Genius of Water” is a fountain cast in bronze. It features a nine-foot tall bronze statue of a woman with outstretched hands out of which flow streams of water. Below the "Genius" are figures dramatizing the allegory of water. On the north side is a workman on a burning housetop imploring the help of water. On the east a reluctant boy is being led by his smiling mother to the bath. A farmer prays for rain on the south side and on the west a girl offers a drink of water to an aged man on crutches.

It is estimated that 500 gallons of water flow through it every minute.

www.myfountainsquare.com/

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