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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 world’s 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!

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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.

[Your Comment]

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]
[Your Address]
We signed the “End Water Poverty!” petition!
# 4,800:
12:24 am PDT, Jul 19, Marion Geromin, Germany
# 4,799:
12:00 am PDT, Jul 19, ROBIN MCKAY, Kentucky
# 4,798:
11:37 pm PDT, Jul 18, Jacquie Schell, Australia
# 4,797:
10:56 pm PDT, Jul 18, Alison Jones, United Kingdom
# 4,796:
10:46 pm PDT, Jul 18, Angela VanCleve, Florida
# 4,795:
10:26 pm PDT, Jul 18, Willy Minnen, Belgium
# 4,794:
9:44 pm PDT, Jul 18, Bella Fitzpatrick, New York
# 4,793:
7:56 pm PDT, Jul 18, Lynne Levine, New York
# 4,792:
7:25 pm PDT, Jul 18, Angel Halloran, Virginia
# 4,791:
6:25 pm PDT, Jul 18, Adrianna Martin, Indiana
# 4,790:
5:14 pm PDT, Jul 18, Henry Parlin, Maine
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5:13 pm PDT, Jul 18, Claudia For the oceans, Netherlands
# 4,788:
4:15 pm PDT, Jul 18, Laura Campanelli, Florida
# 4,787:
3:18 pm PDT, Jul 18, Alice Olivo, Italy
# 4,786:
2:47 pm PDT, Jul 18, Cristina Seica, Portugal
# 4,785:
2:24 pm PDT, Jul 18, Daniella Roozenburg, Netherlands
# 4,784:
2:10 pm PDT, Jul 18, Elena Gageanu, Romania
# 4,783:
2:08 pm PDT, Jul 18, Suvra Anita Das, United Kingdom
# 4,782:
2:05 pm PDT, Jul 18, Annelies Ooms, Belgium
# 4,781:
2:05 pm PDT, Jul 18, Mick Cave, United Kingdom
# 4,780:
2:04 pm PDT, Jul 18, Maria Oniga, Romania
# 4,779:
2:00 pm PDT, Jul 18, Angela Rhodes, Greece
This problem needs addressing now, it should not even be an issue.
# 4,778:
1:56 pm PDT, Jul 18, Pearl Millard, United Kingdom
# 4,777:
12:58 pm PDT, Jul 17, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece
# 4,776:
10:51 am PDT, Jul 11, Jodi Middlebrook, Arizona
# 4,775:
11:34 am PDT, Jul 10, Elizabeth Spawn, Minnesota
Your water should be pure.
# 4,774:
9:24 am PDT, Jul 8, Michael Gandara, Texas
# 4,773:
1:57 pm PDT, Jul 7, Marisa Young, Texas
it isnt fair for these kids and families to have to live without clean water just because this is where they were born. And no matter how hard, or how many long hour they work they cant make enough money to support there families. Most of these children die before the age of 5 so they dont even get a chance at life, they wont get to pursue anything in life, and all because something so simply small as clean water. Well its small to you but just remember its a big deal to them.
# 4,772:
10:13 am PDT, Jul 7, Mario Furtado, New Jersey
# 4,771:
5:43 am PDT, Jul 2, Esther Elizabeth Crompton, South Carolina
# 4,770:
8:56 am PDT, Jul 1, Margaret Tollner, California
# 4,769:
1:38 pm PDT, Jun 26, ELAINE ROBINSON, United Kingdom
# 4,768:
9:56 am PDT, Jun 24, Shelley Perkins, Virginia
# 4,767:
7:32 am PDT, Jun 22, Robin Tavares, Massachusetts
# 4,766:
6:14 pm PDT, Jun 21, Miranda Fitzgerald, Kentucky
# 4,765:
2:14 pm PDT, Jun 19, Rachel H, Ohio
# 4,764:
6:23 pm PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, Australia
# 4,763:
12:40 pm PDT, Jun 18, Aleasha Casaretto, Texas
# 4,762:
6:00 pm PDT, Jun 16, Name not displayed, Canada
Everybody has the right to clean and safe water to drink.
# 4,761:
12:54 pm PDT, Jun 16, Jakub Coltun, California
# 4,760:
8:43 am PDT, Jun 16, Sheree Aramini, New Jersey
# 4,759:
7:16 am PDT, Jun 11, Stela Vasques, Portugal
# 4,758:
9:44 pm PDT, Jun 6, Sara Lawrence, Missouri
# 4,757:
1:45 pm PDT, Jun 5, Joren Cautaers, Belgium
# 4,756:
9:26 am PDT, Jun 5, Elizabeth Hope, California
# 4,755:
7:59 pm PDT, Jun 4, Kendra Langley, Kentucky
# 4,754:
5:37 pm PDT, Jun 4, Igor Purlantov, New York
# 4,753:
9:55 pm PDT, Jun 3, Name not displayed, Michigan
# 4,752:
6:41 pm PDT, Jun 2, Tara McMurtrie, Michigan
# 4,751:
4:34 pm PDT, Jun 2, Christian Segura, Michigan
i think water should be clean to drink just like every other person here in the united states!
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