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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!
# 4,850:
7:38 pm PDT, Jul 25, Cheryl Atwell, Missouri
SAFE WATER WITHOUT POISONS LIKE FLUORIDE AND MERCURY.
# 4,849:
1:04 pm PDT, Jul 25, Nick McGuire, Ohio
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7:34 am PDT, Jul 25, Joshua Satre, Delaware
It is essential, and without it, people die. Water covers 70% of the earth, but is still inaccessable in many third world countries. It is our duty as citizens to ensure the acess of water to everyone
# 4,847:
3:27 pm PDT, Jul 24, Name not displayed, Maryland
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8:29 am PDT, Jul 24, Judy Franklin, Michigan
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8:08 am PDT, Jul 24, Mary Dodge, Michigan
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2:18 pm PDT, Jul 23, Laura Peterman, Canada
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12:35 pm PDT, Jul 22, Natasha G Buenrostro, California
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11:38 am PDT, Jul 22, Angela Yearian, Illinois
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11:37 am PDT, Jul 22, DEborah Aviles, New York
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5:56 am PDT, Jul 22, Sean Noyes, Finland
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11:07 pm PDT, Jul 21, Nancy Billings, Maryland
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10:58 pm PDT, Jul 21, Joyce Barone, Pennsylvania
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5:28 pm PDT, Jul 21, Mark Kiernan, Italy
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3:11 pm PDT, Jul 21, Sugar Bouche, Canada
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2:30 pm PDT, Jul 21, Twyla Sparks, Indiana
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12:43 pm PDT, Jul 21, Ramzi Takiyyuddin, Lebanon
# 4,833:
10:23 am PDT, Jul 21, Dawn Bolin, Ohio
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7:48 am PDT, Jul 21, Cher Isbell, Texas
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6:24 am PDT, Jul 21, Mystical Path, Australia
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4:59 am PDT, Jul 21, Apolonia Pi, Poland
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10:41 pm PDT, Jul 20, Katharina Hemingway, Colorado
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9:25 pm PDT, Jul 20, Name not displayed, New York
# 4,827:
7:41 am PDT, Jul 20, Lorraine Kay, United Kingdom
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7:04 am PDT, Jul 20, Daniel Manahan, California
# 4,825:
5:38 pm PDT, Jul 19, Terri Ybarbo, Texas
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3:45 pm PDT, Jul 19, Mike Feenaughty, South Carolina
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3:27 pm PDT, Jul 19, Annalisa Jones, California
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2:18 pm PDT, Jul 19, Jessica Cresseveur, Indiana
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1:57 pm PDT, Jul 19, Laura Tatti, Italy
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1:17 pm PDT, Jul 19, Maria Grazia, Peru
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12:22 pm PDT, Jul 19, Maikki Urban, Sweden
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12:01 pm PDT, Jul 19, Joseph Johnson, New York
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11:56 am PDT, Jul 19, Jila Taghizadeh, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
# 4,816:
10:16 am PDT, Jul 19, Dj Hace, California
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10:03 am PDT, Jul 19, Pirjo Sundqvist, Sweden
# 4,814:
9:58 am PDT, Jul 19, Marena Chen, Malaysia
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9:58 am PDT, Jul 19, Katia Marcello, Italy
# 4,812:
8:59 am PDT, Jul 19, Sheila Gredzinski, Pennsylvania
# 4,811:
8:24 am PDT, Jul 19, Ann Sumpter, Tennessee
Everybody has the right to clean and safe water to drink.
# 4,810:
7:23 am PDT, Jul 19, Michele Santos, Puerto Rico
# 4,809:
7:09 am PDT, Jul 19, Christie Havers, United Kingdom
# 4,808:
6:58 am PDT, Jul 19, Katie Smith, United Kingdom
Safe water is a basic human right so this issue cannot be ignored.
# 4,807:
6:46 am PDT, Jul 19, Iro Kapeloni, Greece
# 4,806:
5:44 am PDT, Jul 19, Patti Habowski, Ohio
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4:49 am PDT, Jul 19, Pavel Movchanov, Russian Federation
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3:44 am PDT, Jul 19, Tamarah Swensen, Netherlands
# 4,803:
2:50 am PDT, Jul 19, Sue Harris, United Kingdom
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2:37 am PDT, Jul 19, Kirsikka Ahtiala, Finland
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1:18 am PDT, Jul 19, LuCy J Boogaard, Netherlands
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