Clean Water Contest, Info and Prize
Here is a quick overview of the challenge from tonight. Take the bottle of water given to you and do whatever you can do with it this week to turn it into some serious funds for BloodWater Mission. You can sell your bottle at high price after explaining why clean water in Africa is so important. You can sell your bottle and buy more bottles to sell with the profits and sell those. You can drink your water and use the bottle to collect money. Whatever you do, the money you return with next week to REVOLUTION will be donated to BloodWater Mission.
WINNING:
The winner of the contest, the one who brings in the most profit from
their bottle of water, will receive their pick from the Jedidiah Hope
Collection, a series of t-shirts designed
to benefit certain humanitarian organizations and their causes. In
addition to the revenue contributed through the 1% for humanity,
Jedidiah will donate $10 per t-shirt sold from these seven
collaborations to their respective social aid affiliates. The groups
they have partnered with for 2007 include World Vision/Glue Network,
Invisible Children, Gabriel House, Street Angels, ZOE Children's Homes,
International Justice Mission, and Love Light & Melody.
STATISTICS
Availability:
• Over 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water (UN)
• More than half of Africa's people lack access to safe drinking water (UN)
•
Of all the renewable water available in Africa each year, only 4
percent is used --because most Africans lack the wells, canals, pumps,
reservoirs and other irrigation systems (Africare)
• In Ethiopia the percentage of people with access to clean water is 24% (WHO)
Use:
• A person needs 5 liters of water a day for drinking and cooking; 25 more liters are needed to stay clean. (Pacific Institute)
•
In developing countries one person uses an average of 10 liters of
water per day. In the United Kingdom, one person uses an average of 135
liters of water everyday. (www.whrnet.org)
• When you flush the
toilet, you are using the same water amount that one person in the
Third World uses all day to wash, clean, cook and drink.
(www.whrnet.org)
Water-born disease:
• 34,000 people die daily due to water related diseases (UN)
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In the past 10 years diarrhea has killed more children than all the
people lost to armed conflict since World War II. (Water Aid)
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Twelve million people die each year from lack of safe drinking water,
including more than 3 million who die from waterborne diseases. (WHO)
• Over 80% of the disease in developing countries is related to poor drinking water and sanitation. (WHO)
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Some water related diseases: diarrhea, trachoma, parasitic worms
(hookworm, ascaris, dracunculiasis, schistosomiasis), cholera, typhoid,
and infectious hepatitis.
• Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes that breed in unclean water. (WHO)
•
1.5. billion people in the world are suffering from parasite infections
due to solid waste in the environment, which could be controlled with
hygiene, water and sanitation.
• These infections can cause malnutrition, anemia and delayed growth. (www.whrnet.org)
Women’s issues:
• The average distance a woman in Africa and Asia walks to collect water is 6 km (3.75 miles). (www.whrnet.org)
•
The weight of water that women in Asia and Africa carry on their heads
is equivalent to the baggage weight allowed by airlines (20 kg, 44lbs).
(www.whrnet.org)
• Women are the primary caretakers for those who
fall ill from water-related diseases, reducing their time available for
education and productive economic efforts. (www.unfpa.org)
•
One-third of women in Egypt walk more than an hour a day for water; in
other parts of Africa, the task consumes as much as eight hours.
(www.unfpa.org)
• Medical research has documented cases of permanent damage to women’s health,
•
such as chronic fatigue, spinal and pelvic deformities and effects on
reproductive health like spontaneous abortions, were attributed to
carrying water. (www.unhabitat.org)
• In some parts of Africa, women expend as much as 85% of their daily energy intake on getting water, increasing
•
3,800 children die every day from diseases associated with lack of
access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
Source: UN World Water Development Report 2, 2006
• 2.6 billion
people, or 42 percent of the world's population, have inadequate or
nonexistent access to proper sanitation. Source: Meeting the MDG
Drinking Water and Sanitation Target (WHO/UNICEF 2004), WHO/UNICEF
Water for Life 2005
• Water related illnesses affect more people on
earth than any disease. The solutions are simple and we know how to
provide safe access to clean drinking water—all we lack is a concerted
effort to solve the problem.
• It is estimated that a child dies
every 15 seconds from water-related diseases. This amounts to over
5,700 deaths a day. (WHO/UNICEF)
• Unsafe water and poor
sanitation causes intestinal worms, cholera, and diarrhea. Diarrhea is
the third biggest child killer in Africa after pneumonia and malaria –
killing over 700,000 children a year. A baby born in Africa is over 500
times more likely to die from diarrhea than a baby born in a G8
country. (WHO/UNICEF)
• Meeting the water supply and sanitation MDG in Africa would save $60m in annual patient treatment costs (WHO).
• the average American uses 101 gallons /day, compared to 6 gallons in developing countries
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