Showing posts with label causes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label causes. Show all posts

Hot Water: Clean Water

Written by evan on March 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM


I blogged the other day about our hot water heater dieing out Sunday afternoon.
Many have heard me complain. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. and Here.
Well today, when I got home. the hot water worked, and our landlord advised me that it cost him $500 to fix it.

I got to thinking. Here I am complaining about hot water, when a lot of people don't have clean water.

2000 World Commission on Water for the 21st Century Report

  • three billion people in the world don't have proper sanitation
  • one billion people don't have access to safe water
  • the equivalent of 12 jumbo jets of children die everyday from sanitation-related diseases

three billion people in the world don't have proper sanitation.



According to Blood:Water Misison, $1 = one year of water for an african
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