Unlike you or me, over one billion people on earth have no safe drinking water. Women and children may walk up to 6 hours a day to get water, and even then, it may not be enough, or safe enough to drink. Many drink contaminated water and then get sick. 2.2 million human beings die each year from water borne illnesses. 6,000 people die every day and 240 children die every hour. But there is hope. Click this short video link and watch what is going on in front of our very own eyes, mostly unnoticed, and find out what we collectively can do to solve this crisis.
Solutions to rural unsafe water problems involve community organization, appropriate technology, hygiene, sanitation, transfer of ownership, change in behavior, and long-term maintenance. The solutions are available today; what was missing was the infrastructure to select, fund, manage, monitor, and share thousands of grassroots, community projects.
Blue Planet’s PWX organization scales local solutions to the size of the global water problem. An empowering human network that enforces collaboration of expert resources at very low cost to efficiently, transparently, and effectively focus on funding thousands of low-tech projects that are completely sustainable and maintainable by the communities they support.
Problems like access to safe drinking water can easily be solved for millions of people around the world in our lifetime. There are so many little things we can do to make a big difference in the lives of others. I hope that you will support the Blue Planet Foundation and its mission to do something about this humanitarian crisis! Thank you for all your wonderful comments, support and continued interest. Water is life. Pass it on!
Solutions to rural unsafe water problems involve community organization, appropriate technology, hygiene, sanitation, transfer of ownership, change in behavior, and long-term maintenance. The solutions are available today; what was missing was the infrastructure to select, fund, manage, monitor, and share thousands of grassroots, community projects.
Blue Planet’s PWX organization scales local solutions to the size of the global water problem. An empowering human network that enforces collaboration of expert resources at very low cost to efficiently, transparently, and effectively focus on funding thousands of low-tech projects that are completely sustainable and maintainable by the communities they support.
Problems like access to safe drinking water can easily be solved for millions of people around the world in our lifetime. There are so many little things we can do to make a big difference in the lives of others. I hope that you will support the Blue Planet Foundation and its mission to do something about this humanitarian crisis! Thank you for all your wonderful comments, support and continued interest. Water is life. Pass it on!
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