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Why a clean water project?

 

• 46% of people on Earth do not have water piped into their homes
• 900 million people have no consistent access to clean water. This is 1 out of every 8 persons.
• Women in developing countries walk an average of 3.7 miles to get water and carry it home each day

• The average American uses an average of 100 gallons of water each day, while millions of people in poorer parts of the world subsist on less than 5 gallons per day.
• 2 billion: the average number of gallons of water used to irrigate golf courses in the United States each day. This equates to 3,000 gallons per game played, measured in Florida.

• 2.5 billion people have no safe way to dispose of human waste (more than 1 out of every 3 persons).
• Teaching proper hand-washing techniques (20 seconds with soap) has been shown to cut diarrheal diseases by ~45%. Many people, though, having hardly enough water to drink, are unwilling to spare it for washing hands and clothes.
• Dirty water and lack of a toilet and proper hygiene kill 3.5 million people around the world annually, with most of them being children under the age of 5. These preventable deaths caused by diseases due to water sanitation issues outnumber those that occur through warfare.

• Freshwater ecosystems are home to 126,000 animal species, which are disappearing at a rate of 4 to 6 times faster than animals on land or at sea. This is due to close linkage between freshwater ecosystems and human activity.