Nearly 1 billion people on the planet do not have access to clean drinking water … 1 billion, that’s a lot of people. It’s not that water is completely scarce in the world; it’s just not easily accessible to a lot of areas. Without water, we could not exist, life could not exist. If we look back about 100 years ago to New York and London, they were both cities that carried a lot of infectious diseases. It was the reforms of water and sanitation that allowed the cities to progress and control disease. According to a poll by the British Medical Journal, clean water and sanitation have been the most important medical advancement since the 1840s.
We know that water is a renewable resource, however we seem to be depleting that resource faster than we know what to do with it. With areas in the world that lack safe water and sanitation and with 90 percent of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week being from unsafe water, it is safe to say we have a water crisis on our hands.
Charity Water is a non-profit organization that has recently caught my attention. The organization brings clean and safe drinking water to people in underdeveloped parts of the world. In a little more than three years, Charity Water has funded nearly 4,000 water projects in 19 countries. With the completion of these projects, the organization will provide clean, safe drinking water for more than 1.9 million people.
The solution to unsafe water is rather simple, from deep-drilled wells to water-filtration systems, clean water can be available to everyone. Charity Water is operated by a group of private donors, so every dollar that is donated by the public goes directly to those in need.
There are lots of different ways you can get involved. If you visit New York City, you can attend a monthly volunteer night to help out in the office and meet other supporters. You can also create a fundraising campaign to help collect donations for cleaner water.
Water changes everything and is the most important resource we have. Excessive use of groundwater is depleting our precious resource and overuse and pollution of water are not only harming the planet, they’re killing our population.
For more information on Charity Water visit charitywater.org.
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