Let's Talk About Clean Water or the Lack of it

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Did you know that about 3.5 million people die each year because of drinking contaminated water? They have no access to clean water. In the USA and other advanced countries, a person just has to turn on the tap to have clean water. Occasionally, however, even the water supply in advanced countries is compromised. Fracking is also a HUGE concern here in the USA. This is the method used by oil drilling companies who are depositing toxic waste water into the ground in several different areas, threatening our underground water supplies. I have posted more than one article about this. For more information: Google “fracking” Actors, Matt Damon, who co-founded H20 Africa, and Gary White, who co-founded Water Partners merged their organizations in 2009 into Water.org. Gary White said that in some villages in northern Ethiopia, women had to walk up to six hours a day for water from rivers that are contaminated by animals, while “right under their feet – 30 or 40 meters – is safe water” in the underground aquifers. Matt Damon explained that “there are few places in the world with a water situation as severe as in Ethiopia.” He spoke of a hand-dug well shared by 6,000 people who threw tin cans tied with ropes into the hole to get water. Kids held up plastic bottles of what he called “filthy brown water” that these children would drink that day at school. Their organization Water.org funded a new well and helped he local people to form their own water committee which would be responsible for maintaining and operating the system. They should certainly be congratulated for their efforts to supply clean water to more and more people around the globe. If you ever wondered about an organization that you could donate funds to for the betterment of humans on this earth, I would recommend this one. Visit water.org Picture by Pixabay