WMU Kalamazoo Walk for Water 2012
What: Walk for Water 2012
Who: You, Friends, Family, and Colleagues
Why: Clean Water for the World! Walk to raise awareness and funds for providing water purification in the most needed areas of the world to save lives and improve living quality.
When: Saturday, March 17, 2012 1:00pm until 4:00pm
Where: Miller Plaza, WMU Campus
How: Donate or Participate
UT Toledo Walk 4 Water 2012
What: Walk 4 Water 2012 is sponsored by the Christian Service Program at the University of Toledo
When: 1:00 until 3:00 PM Saturday April 21, 2012
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 provide water purification units at no cost to local communities without potable water.
How: Walkers raise money by soliciting funds from sponsors.
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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?
