One large world health problem is clean water. Advent conspiracy (AC) (talked about in previous post) encourages people to spend less on Christmas and then donate money to organizations which help people get clean water around the world. According to the AC website the US spends 450 billion dollars on Christmas each year but it would only take 10 billion dollars to provide clean water for everyone in the world. Here are some statistics from the April 2010 National Geographic issue titled Water-Our Thirsty World.
1) Americans use about 100 gallons of water each day.
2) Millions of the world's poorest subsist on fewer than 5 gallons.
3) 46 percent of people on earth do not have water piped to their homes.
4) Women in developing countries walk an average of 3.7 miles to get water.
5) In 15 years, 1.8 billion people will live in regions of severe water scarcity.
These are just a few facts. They do not even begin to touch the disease and death which is caused from lack of clean water. Take a minute and check out the National Geographic magazine articles online from the April 2010 issue.
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