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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!
With all of our advances in technology, this should not be happening. Please continue with methods to increase healthy water supplies to those less fortunate.
Have you ever had diarrhea? can you imagine *dying* from it? We can't turn away while others die in this manner.
Everybody needs clean water! Even us in the US, our water is filled with pharmaceutical run off.
I believe that the availability of safe water worldwide is an absolute necessity and the U.S. government should lead the way to making that possible. What do you think and how will you make that happen?
I cannot believe we need petitions on such issue, and I cannot believe that other humans have to Beg for something that should be a given, like food/water/shelter. And they call us civil-ized.
It is perhaps the most basic of all human needs and arguably the most fundamental of all human rights.