Let's take a moment here and think about some things. Statistics are easy to just pass by as statistics, but in this case why don't you read each one and let it sink in for a minute. Compare it to things, your life. Think hard.
-783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. That's a lot of millions. Thats Seven hundred thirty eight.... million.
-5000 deaths a day occur from unsafe drinking water. That's about the size (a bit smaller) than the town of Estes Park in the winter months. Can you imagine the horror if an entire mountain town somewhere in the US was completely wiped out, dying because none of them had safe water to drink? And this happens daily.
-Water related diseases is the second biggest killer of children worldwide.
-Clean water in these places is to diarrhea as immunizations are to killer diseases. Water. WATER. They don't need scientists and doctors trying to help figure out how to save the millions of people who are effected by this. It's there. It's cover a majority of the planet. But it needs to get to them.
$20 can provide access one person to clean water in their village. Can you believe that? That's nothing. That's half of what a lot of us spend on gas. If someone walked up to you and sincerely, honestly told you that $20 would change their life forever in a way you could not imagine, would you give them twenty bucks? I so don't want to make this a guilt trip thing. Not my intention. I just want everyone to think about the impact of what we do, and what we CAN do.
I don't want to state a bunch of statistics without giving everyone a way to do something about it if they feel so inclined. So here's a way to do something about it:
http://www.charitywater.org/
