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End Water Poverty!
Target: Presidential CandidatesSponsored 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!
Sanitation of drinking water would prevent many diseases.
I think that all people should have pure water and sanitation facillities. There should be something that can be done to end water poverty. Without water, life ceases. I hope the candidates remember that.
Water is a fundamental human right!
i don't understand why ALL people do not realize the importance of water, and clean water to boot. we would die without it. i guess the answer is that our leaders don't care if some people die. maybe they think there are too many people and a few falling by the wayside don't matter. if you want to cut down on the world's population, institute some kind of birth control incentive, don't kill off those already here. please, make clean water and our environment the HIGHEST priority.