Clean Drinking Water Wells
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SBunt
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I need the funds to help me pay to create a first class website that collects donations for the funding of the drilling clean water wells for clean drinking water. I plan on raising the funds to drill wells in many parts of the world. 100% of all donations will go directly to creating and mainting the site.
Why Clean Water ?
- There are 1.1 billion people, or 18 per cent of the world's population, who lack access to safe drinking water. About 2.6 billion people, or 42 per cent of the total, lack access to basic sanitation (WHO/UNICEF, 2005 : 40).
- More than 2.2. million people, mostly in developing countries, die each year from diseases associated with poor water and sanitary conditions (WHO/UNICEF/WSSCC, 2000: V)
- At any one time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.
- Every week an estimated 42,000 people die from diseases related to low quality drinking water and lack of sanitation. Over 90 per cent of them occur to children under the age of 5 (WHO/UNICEF, 2005: 15).
- Two of the water-related diseases, diarrhea and malaria, ranked 3rd and 4th place in the cause of death among children under 5 years old, accounting for 17 per cent and 8 per cent respectively of all deaths (WHO, 2005: 106).
- In sub-Saharan Africa, a baby’s chance of dying from diarrhoea is almost 520 times the chance of that in Europe or the United States (WHO/UNICEF, 2005: 16).
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- SBunt
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