Today, 1,000 kids will die from drinking unsafe water
Celebrate World Water Day on March 22 -- and every day -- by appreciating and conserving the world's most precious resource.
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Respect your water. If the water that comes out of your tap is clean and affordable, be thankful. Be thankful when you drink it. Be thankful when you wash with it. Be thankful when you cook with it. Every time you open a faucet, remember that you're doing something beyond the reach of almost 3 billion people.
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Conserve. An ample water supply today is no guarantee that it will be there tomorrow. Groundwater aquifers take hundreds of years to replenish. Do your part — you'll be saving money, anyway. Install water-saving showerheads. Plant drought-resistant gardens, and irrigate them — if at all possible — with harvested rainwater. Find leaks in your home and repair them. Take shorter showers. Replace old washing machines and dishwashers with water-saving, EnergyStar-rated appliances. Never send anything to a landfill you wouldn't want in your drinking water 10 years from now. There are plenty of water conservation resources on the Web. We'd like to recommend our own 5 cheap ways to save 1,000 gallons of water.
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Support organizations that bring fresh water to people who don't have any. Groups such as Water for People, the Blue Planet Run Foundation and H2O Africa are all working to make every day World Water Day. Find an organization that excites you, and help provide what they need.
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We all need to do whatever we can to save water whether we live in a developing or developed country. In my family, we save water by using graywater, educating our kids and by collecting rainwater. You can make your own rain barrels or buy one from one of the many companies that sell them. We have barrels from EarthMinded and we are very happy with them.
It's all about awareness and we need to have raise people' awareness on issues like these. All it takes is small steps.
I'm from India and I can really see the whole point here.
Water has been and still is the world's most powerful rescource. We need to help those who need it while we abuse the privelege of water. Think about it, when a water main breaks, we all freak out and rush to fix it. It isn't a matter of us and them, but rather life and death.
We all need safe, clean drinking water to survive.
Suzanne, I saw your comments on John Wood's petition to vote for the Disallowance Motion on GMOs in WA. If you contact John at: johnawood@iinet.net.au he will send you the email letter so you can forward it to as many people as possible. Tell him Chris Lees sent you (I was the person who edited his petition). Or you can email me direct at: welara@bigpond.com and I will send it to you. Thank you so much for caring. Kind regards,.... More
Then why we celebrate March 22nd-29th as World Water week ? There have no meaning of the day if thousands of children will die from drinking unsafe water.
We must appreciate and conserve one element essential for all life: WATER!
