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End Water Poverty!

Target: Presidential Candidates
Sponsored by: WaterAid America

Every day, 5,000 children under five die from easily prevented diarrheal diseases. Millions more children miss school and millions of adults are kept out of productive work. The cause: 40% of the worlds population lack safe water or sanitation. The vast majority of those affected live on less than $2 a day. They are trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and disease, that they have little hope of escaping unless the silent crisis in water and sanitation is addressed.

But strong and effective leadership from the next President of the United States can improve the lives of people living in extreme poverty and make progress on global health, the environment, and human rights. Addressing the world's water and sanitation crisis means improvement in all these areas.

Urge the next President to make safe water and sanitation for the world's poor a top priority and promise to direct U.S. foreign assistance to the poor countries that need it, not just to its allies. Sign the petition today!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 5,000

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Dear [Presidential Candidate]:

Safe water and sanitation are basic human rights, yet billions of people suffer each day without them. Diseases caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation kill nearly 5,000 children under age 5 every day, lead to the waste of billions of hours fetching water�mostly by women and children�and keep millions of people from working or attending school.

The U.S. can help solve this global crisis by directing its foreign assistance to safe water and sanitation initiatives in countries where it is needed the most. Only by recognizing and redressing this fundamental problem can efforts to prevent or cure disease and help lift people out of poverty be successful.

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I urge you to make clean water and sanitation for the world�s poor a priority as President of the United States.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
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We signed the “End Water Poverty!” petition!

# 50:

9:18 am PDT, Mar 11, Maya Reyes, Mexico

# 49:

9:16 am PDT, Mar 11, VILLAN PRIM, Arizona
Clean water makes a healthy life...

# 48:

9:14 am PDT, Mar 11, Kiku Nitta, California
There is far too much suffering in this world lets ban together and help those in need.

# 47:

9:02 am PDT, Mar 11, Rajashekhar Chava, Pennsylvania

# 46:

8:43 am PDT, Mar 11, Debra Arnold, Michigan

# 45:

8:43 am PDT, Mar 11, Jenna Templeton, California
Water is a need, not a privilege. Please do all that you can to stop water poverty!

# 44:

8:41 am PDT, Mar 11, Dian Santoro, Washington

# 43:

8:32 am PDT, Mar 11, Cant Say, New Hampshire

# 42:

8:30 am PDT, Mar 11, Name not displayed, Minnesota

# 41:

8:23 am PDT, Mar 11, John Crawford, Ireland

# 40:

8:19 am PDT, Mar 11, James Herald, Indiana

# 39:

8:18 am PDT, Mar 11, Melanie Longano, Ohio

# 38:

8:14 am PDT, Mar 11, Lorena Drajneanu, Romania

# 37:

8:09 am PDT, Mar 11, Maria Pevere, Italy

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8:08 am PDT, Mar 11, Luz Soni, Mexico

# 35:

7:44 am PDT, Mar 11, Dawee Van, Michigan

# 34:

7:42 am PDT, Mar 11, Eric Bock, California

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7:38 am PDT, Mar 11, John Feissel, North Carolina

# 32:

7:37 am PDT, Mar 11, John Geiser, Michigan

# 31:

7:25 am PDT, Mar 11, Chetna Pittea, United Kingdom

# 30:

7:13 am PDT, Mar 11, John Miller, Illinois

# 29:

7:11 am PDT, Mar 11, Mary Gallant, Pennsylvania

# 28:

7:05 am PDT, Mar 11, Klaire Usai, Italy

# 27:

7:04 am PDT, Mar 11, Clair Leary, South Africa

# 26:

6:55 am PDT, Mar 11, Lynn Watkins, California

# 25:

6:48 am PDT, Mar 11, Ashley Carnadie, Indonesia

# 24:

6:47 am PDT, Mar 11, Eileen Sarett-Cuasay, Virginia

# 23:

6:41 am PDT, Mar 11, Nita Hyrkkanen, United Kingdom

# 22:

6:39 am PDT, Mar 11, Sarah Booen, United Kingdom

# 21:

6:14 am PDT, Mar 11, Jessica Brown, Pennsylvania

# 20:

6:13 am PDT, Mar 11, Doris Pymble, Australia

# 19:

6:09 am PDT, Mar 11, Anna Becker, Tennessee

# 18:

6:00 am PDT, Mar 11, Nick Davis, Canada

# 17:

5:42 am PDT, Mar 11, Sarah Zenz, Illinois

# 16:

5:16 am PDT, Mar 11, Adem Certel, United Kingdom

# 15:

4:31 am PDT, Mar 11, Terri VanKuipers, Canada

# 14:

3:34 am PDT, Mar 11, Sanjoy Banerjee, India
Please make sure that everyone across the globe has access to pure fresh water. This is the most basic of all needs and must be met at all costs and with topmost priority.

# 13:

2:37 am PDT, Mar 11, Cindi Shannon, Michigan

# 12:

2:19 am PDT, Mar 11, Lisa Keils, Florida

# 11:

2:16 am PDT, Mar 11, Steve Klein, Canada

# 10:

2:05 am PDT, Mar 11, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey

# 9:

1:50 am PDT, Mar 11, Margaret Patrick, United Kingdom

# 8:

1:44 am PDT, Mar 11, Timothy Bruck, Ohio

# 7:

1:30 am PDT, Mar 11, Aaron Chia, Singapore
Water is one of the basic needs, and must be available to all.

# 6:

1:28 am PDT, Mar 11, Fabio Roccaforte, Italy

# 5:

1:05 am PDT, Mar 11, Jennifer Cribbs, Ohio

# 4:

12:09 am PDT, Mar 11, Name not displayed, Florida
It one of the few critical things that any human needs, and we in the developed world take it for granted. It does not cost much to help our fellow humans .... please assist where possible !

# 3:

8:44 pm PDT, Mar 10, Justin Perkins, Colorado
It's 2008, not 1608. Unbelievable to me that such a basic human problem hasn't been solved, and yet we put people on the moon. Let's put things in perspective and handle the basics. It's completely within our capacity as a species.

# 2:

4:20 pm PDT, Mar 10, Heather Barss, New Hampshire
Everyone should have the right to clean water!! It needs to be made more accessible to people in developing countries!

# 1:

4:10 pm PDT, Mar 10, Ruth Barrett, Australia

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