Sign Warns "Clean Water Polluted"

WATER FACTS

One billion (that is 1,000,000,000) people on earth do not have access to drinking water (Water.Org).

Today, California is in a water crisis and endure water rationing. The water table in California has fallen 100 feet! Governor Jerry Brown of California encourages people to take short showers and threatens a $500 find for long showers! How would he know?

One Billion (with a B) people on earth are subject to public deification (Unicef).

More people die each year of water borne disease that they do of cancer, heart attacks, and AIDS combined (Water.Org.)

More people have a mobile phone than a working toilet!

Can you imagine not having access to clean water?

When water falls from the sky it is free, but to put it where you need it cost money. We live in a society where water is a human right. It is inconceivable to picture our lives without a working faucet.

Globally people name water, “Liquid Gold.” Water is gold because of its scarcity and because of its color when they dig mud water or drink from a sewer. If this makes you cringe, then you are beginning to understand, “Global Water Poverty."

A World Without Water:

Kenya women spend a day of terror and toil walking miles to retrieve, from a polluted river, a baby's drinking water. The toil of a water walk robs women of precious time home schooling, raising crops, and family cooking. Water. Org states, “ 140 million hourse are waster per year, walking walking.

You can't drink without getting cholera or diarrhea. Without water raising a garden or farm animals is impossible. Hospitals cannot heal because their water is polluted. One water truck in Nairobi, Kenya reads, “Clean Water Polluted.” What does that mean?

The Lawala Medical Clinic in Kenya did not have clean drinking water. People from Lawala often visited the clinic due to water borne diseases. The clinic could not offer drinking water and treated the problems with medicine. The people were sent home to their polluted water. This is called, “The Global Misery Index.” Global misery equals, no hope. In 2009, The Aqua Effect drilled the clinic a clean water well (for free). The clinic now offers medicine and shares its clean water with the community.

Dig a well and you will have to dig a million more, give the tools to dig a well and you start local economy."

The Aqua Effect projects focus only on sustainability solutions. One in particular has received a lot of attention.  The organization is starting a drilling company in Kenya that will be run entirely by local communities.  "We have drilled wells, we have brought medical supplies, he have purified water, but the real solution is giving the people power to retrieve their own water from their own land.