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Women Worldwide Need Clean Water

Sponsored by: Water For People

The evidence is clear: helping women in poor communities translates into benefits throughout an entire community. And one of the best ways to help women is also one of the simplest -- give them access to clean water and adequate sanitation.

A lack of these resources undermines the health, survival, and livelihood of women and the communities they live in. For example, in rural Malawi, less than 30 percent have adequate latrines and hand-washing facilities. As a result the population lives with regular outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever and inevitably has an average lifespan of only 40 years. How can a woman live up to her full potential when she is constantly crippled by the devastating consequences of polluted water and unsafe conditions?

In addition, the average distance that women in developing countries walk to collect water per day is 4 miles and the average weight that women carry on their heads is approximately 44 pounds. This is time better invested in school, work, or family.

Too many women and their families are limited in their potential by unsafe water and sanitation -- please empower women and support access to clean water around the world.

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1:37 pm PST, Nov 21, Kelly Thacker, Ohio

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11:58 am PST, Nov 21, Gen Wadsley, Spain

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4:15 am PST, Nov 21, Alexandra MAUVE, France

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10:40 am PST, Nov 20, Melissa Johnson, Illinois

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10:39 am PST, Nov 20, Marjolein Soederhuizen, Netherlands
it is a right, for all people to live clean, so make it true and give these woman acces to clean water.......its a shame, this is not normal yet.

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9:25 am PST, Nov 20, Maria Schulz, Romania

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5:13 am PST, Nov 20, John Dalla, Nevada

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2:10 am PST, Nov 20, Charles Muehlhof, Pennsylvania

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12:44 am PST, Nov 20, Beverly Combs, Georgia

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9:52 pm PST, Nov 19, Shirley Biscotti, California
Every human, male and female, needs clean drinkable usable water for life. We can't survive without it. We must help all people to have access to clean water all around the world.

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8:21 pm PST, Nov 19, Vicki Smith, California

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5:07 pm PST, Nov 19, Cindy Strousberg, Florida

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5:01 pm PST, Nov 19, Darlene Davis, Michigan

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1:48 pm PST, Nov 19, Ingrid Broecker, Germany

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1:45 pm PST, Nov 19, Selva Carnevale, Argentina

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1:12 pm PST, Nov 19, Angela Bassett, Canada

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1:08 pm PST, Nov 19, Louise J Bowles, California

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1:00 pm PST, Nov 19, April Guardi, Alaska

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11:55 am PST, Nov 19, Cheryl Mount, Florida

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11:52 am PST, Nov 19, Patricia Cevallos, El Salvador

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11:49 am PST, Nov 19, Colette Walsh, United Kingdom
We all need clean water. It is a human right. Lets do something today

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11:32 am PST, Nov 19, Patricia Díaz Garbarino, Uruguay

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11:19 am PST, Nov 19, Jeanene Tremoulet, Florida

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11:00 am PST, Nov 19, Michelle Duran, California

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10:57 am PST, Nov 19, Mytzi Rudolph, Washington

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10:49 am PST, Nov 19, Sharyn Shubert, Florida
please help these women

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10:31 am PST, Nov 19, Linda Sperling, New Mexico

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10:10 am PST, Nov 19, Sabine Yenen, Turkey

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9:56 am PST, Nov 19, Susan Minchin, Canada

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9:24 am PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, Greece

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9:06 am PST, Nov 19, David & Gill Dunkerley, Spain

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9:02 am PST, Nov 19, Marilyn Cormier, New Hampshire
All women and their children need clean water that is readily availble. We take this for granted in most parts of Ameria, rarely thinking about the plight of women in other parts of the world. Let them be women.......meet their potentials. Good sanitation, as in toilets, would also be appreciated. Women need to be women, not slaves to lugging water and disease.

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8:52 am PST, Nov 19, Fran Saykaly, New York

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8:49 am PST, Nov 19, Milan Rokanovic, Serbia And Montenegro

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8:21 am PST, Nov 19, Christine Guerrero, Massachusetts

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8:18 am PST, Nov 19, ELIOT SPALDING, New York

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7:52 am PST, Nov 19, Leigh Jack, United Kingdom

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7:50 am PST, Nov 19, CLEO PAPAGEORGIOU, Greece

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7:50 am PST, Nov 19, Amy Divine, Colorado

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7:46 am PST, Nov 19, Abby Gail Layton, Oregon

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7:44 am PST, Nov 19, Elena K, Ukraine

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7:13 am PST, Nov 19, Deborah Outman, Georgia

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7:07 am PST, Nov 19, JANET FUZEAR, Wisconsin

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7:06 am PST, Nov 19, Agneta Eker, Belgium

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7:03 am PST, Nov 19, Manon Gauthier, Canada

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7:01 am PST, Nov 19, Debra Rincon Lopez, Oregon
Please do all that you can as if it were your mother, or your daughters and grandmother and family members using this very water. It is not too much to ask just to have clean and fresh drinking water to live on today in this year of 2009!

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6:59 am PST, Nov 19, Candace Tuttle, Massachusetts

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6:57 am PST, Nov 19, Anne Westerman, United Kingdom

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6:44 am PST, Nov 19, Alfonso Marzocchi, Italy

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12:10 am PST, Nov 19, Janine Vorster, New Zealand

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3:07 pm PST, Nov 18, Nancy Sasko, Indiana

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8:55 pm PST, Nov 17, Antoinette Musmanno, New York

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2:50 pm PST, Nov 16, Megan Gardner, Rhode Island

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2:40 pm PST, Nov 16, Nayda Gonzalez, Utah

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2:28 pm PST, Nov 16, Larry Brody, Massachusetts

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2:13 pm PST, Nov 16, Kathleen McDonald, Mississippi

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2:08 pm PST, Nov 16, Martha Sheriger, California

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1:52 pm PST, Nov 16, Stephen Hodge, Maryland

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1:50 pm PST, Nov 16, Linda Hatch, California

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1:33 pm PST, Nov 16, Stef Deem, Texas

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1:31 pm PST, Nov 16, Sheila Roddy, Kansas

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1:11 pm PST, Nov 16, Caryl Matusich, California

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