As you get ready for church (tomorrow), go to church, fix and eat your dinner and spend this day with your family, consider the following information about water from water.org . . .
- Do you have a cell phone? More people in the world own cell phones than have access to a toilet.
- The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
- A bathtub holds 151L of water - someone living in a slum may have 30L of water to use for their needs all day long.
- Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
- Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
- In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs — collecting water for domestic use. This lost productivity is greater than the combined number of hours worked in a week by employees at Wal*Mart, United Parcel Service, McDonald’s, IBM, Target, and Kroger.
- At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
- As of December 5th more than 2000 people have died in Hatti due to cholera.
Today’s water crisis is not an issue of scarcity, but of access. Check my posts on causelife - and what they are doing to help provide clean, safe water for people around the world and how your kids can help and "Put Feet to Their Faith"!
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