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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!
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3:39 pm PDT, Oct 21,
Kaitlyn Clark, Texas
well, just think if you were living just normal life like today, and someone tells you, sorry, every drink that includes water(which is almost evrything!), is un-sanatized and nasty unclean water. what does that mean to us? nothing really... but if we were kind and generous, like half of the world isnt, we would care, and have a place in our heart for the peoiple without clean water. because we are all one big family. now dont you just want to add happy in that phrase? |
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10:48 am PDT, Aug 5,
Sarah Manthey, Ohio
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5:42 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Matthew Smith, South Carolina
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8:25 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Laurel Watson, Arizona
To stop the problems with the food and water supply we must also lower human population! Humans are consuming 50% of the fresh water supply leaving all other species to complete for what is left over...and they are dying. We are losing 1 species per minute now.--a rate 10,000 times above the natural rate. Please give water to humans who need it but we have got to address the underlying cause of food and water shortages. There are simply too many humans now, exploiting 20% more resources a year than the Earth can produce. |