Ever live in a place where you know the water is not safe to drink? Where you even use bottled water to clean your teeth? I have and I?ve got to say it?s not fun. I lived in Saudi Arabia for a year and was reliant on bottled water for drinking, cooking, and yes, cleaning my teeth.
But while I found it annoying, at least I did have access to clean water which is more that millions of people around the world have.
The World Health Organizations (WHO) says?
??1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation kills nearly TWO MILLION people each year, mostly children under the age of five.?
That?s way too many people without clean drinking water.
Want to help out? Take the Clean Water Challenge Quiz?
For each correct answer, the American Chemistry Council, with support from the World Chlorine Council and individual companies, will contribute $0.20, up to a total of $200,000. Twenty cents is the cost of five chlorine tablets designed to disinfect 100 liters of water. With your help, we can contribute enough to disinfect 100 million liters of household drinking water.
These contributions will support efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other partners to implement household water programs in Ghana, Niger and Mali as part of the West Africa Water Initiative. Using chlorine-based disinfection and safe water storage techniques, these programs will reach an estimated 3 million people, helping to reduce disease and improve quality of life.
After all, every drop counts.
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