A Step Toward Safe Drinking Water on Earth Day

Did you know illnesses resulting from water contamination are the leading cause of human sickness and death worldwide? In just the past decade, more children have died due to a lack of access to safe drinking water than all the people who have died in battle since World War II.

Even when safe drinking water is available, women in Africa and Asia must walk an average of 3.7 miles to and from the nearest improved sanitation facility to collect it, wasting more than 40 million hours each year in Africa alone.

As a leader in the effort to improve access to safe drinking water around the globe, Rotary International wants to offer you a unique opportunity to help bring awareness to this cause on Sunday, which just happens to be Earth Day.

We want to give you the chance to use a pedometer to keep track of the distance you walk each day for a week because we believe this will help you put the burden of inadequate access to water faced by women in developing countries in perspective.

We have two pedometers to give away.  Just tell us in the comments below or on Facebook what always having clean water means to you.

More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. This is your chance to experience what that’s like. We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to help raise awareness for this important cause.

Rotary International