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The Facts about Clean Water
The situation- Nearly 800 million people in the world do not have access to safe, clean water – that's roughly one in 10 people around the world. (World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF)
- 700,000 children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 2,000 deaths a day. (WHO).
- Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at a time. (UNICEF)
- In urban areas in Africa and Asia people collect water from polluted waterways or pay high prices to buy it from vendors who obtain it from dubious sources.
- Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
- WaterAid has reached nearly 16 million people with safe water since 1981 and over 11 million people with sanitation since 2004.
- WaterAid projects providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education cost just $25 per person. (WaterAid)
- Last year WaterAid reached 1.45 million people with safe water and 1.62 million people with sanitation.
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The Facts about Plastic Waste
The situation- Even in this era of conservation of resources, less than 20% of plastic disposable water bottles are recycled.
- An estimated 50 billion plastic bottles of water are consumed each year in the US and over 200 billion bottles globally.
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating mass of garbage, roughly the size of Canada, in the Pacific Ocean — and it’s largely made of plastic waste.
- 1.5 million barrels of oil are used annually to produce plastic water bottles for the US alone — enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year.
- Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That's about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
- Don't use plastic bottles.
- Look into your community's recycling policy.
- Be a role model: initiate a sustainability program at your company or school
- Watch this video: storyofstuff.org/bottledwater
- Use a reusable, stainless steel bottle such as S'well.
The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
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Running a marathon? Taking part in a triathlon? Whatever your sponsored event is, the easiest way to collect your sponsorship money is by setting up an online fundraising page with WaterAid.
