Toledo Walk 4 Water 2013
What: Walk 4 Water 2013 at the University of Toledo
When: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Saturday April 13, 2013
Where: Meet at Centennial Plaza University of Toledo Main Campus
Why: To increase Toledo's awareness of the worldwide lack of access to clean water and to raise funds to help Clean Water for the World build and distribute water purification units.
How: For more information and to register go to: http://www.firstgiving.com/cw4w/toledow4w
Bowling Green Walk 4 Water 2013
What: Walk 4 Water Bowling Green 2013
When: 10:30 until noon Saturday April 20, 2013
Where: Bowling Green State University
Why: To increase Bowling Green's awareness of the worldwide lack of access to clean water and to raise funds for Clean Water for the World to build and distribute water purification units.
How: For more information and to register go to: http://www.firstgiving.com/cw4w/w4wbgsu2013
Clean Water for the World
Will you help bring clean water to people who desperately need it?
1.8 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases including cholera and E coli.
4,900 people die each day. 90% of those are children under age five, mostly in developing countries.
For children under the age of five, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death.
According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water—that’s approximately one in six people on earth.
Furthermore, less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is readily accessible for human use.
Human use of water has increased more than 35-fold over the past three centuries. Consider this: the average American uses 80-100 gallons of water at home each day, compared to the average African family, which uses about five gallons.
Most of our water use is attributed to flushing toilets and bathing or showering. We Americans run our dishwashers, washing machines, and faucets, often oblivious to how much water we utilize and how easily accessible it is to us.
Millions of women and children in other parts of the world spend several hours a day collecting water from contaminated rivers, lakes and open wells. People can't live without water, but too many of them will die from it.
Will you help bring clean water to people who desperately need it?
