Water. A vital part of everyone's daily existence (and not just because it keeps us from getting too stinky), the right to accessing clean, safe drinking water should be one of those unalienable rights that we all have by virtue of being citizens of the planet Earth. Unfortunately, almost 1 in 8 people on the planet do not have access to this very important, life giving substance - that's almost a billion people! The lack of basic sanitation that clean water provides causes approximately 80% of all diseases in the world, resulting in more deaths than anything else, including war.
We have come so far in the world technologically, it boggles the mind to see our world's children dying of diseases that could be completely preventable, like dysentery or diarrhea. After all, it should not be hard to realize how important water is to the preservation of life, and we should all be aware of how precious this life source can be. Waters as friends of man give full protection to his progenies (Rig Veda Samhita vi-50-7), and we should all be able to see how much farther the developing nations could advance if they did not have to struggle daily for the ability to get something to drink that is clean and safe.
Conserving water at home is an important first step, but it is only the beginning in creating a better world. We spend $5 for a coffee at Starbucks, how much are we willing to spend to save the life of a child? How about an entire community?
http://www.waterforpeople.org/
http://www.charitywater.org/
http://www.watercharity.org/
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/
http://www.water1st.org/
http://blueplanetnetwork.org/
http://www.h2oafrica.org/
http://www.wateraid.org/
http://www.waterforpeople.org/extras/playpumps/case-foundation-partnership.html
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