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World Water Day

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About a couple hundred people walked from the Santa Monica Pier, south along the boardwalk to Venice during the 2007 World Water Day Walk on Saturday, March 23, 2007.  In many communities around the world, women and children must walk up to 6 miles a day to retrieve clean water for their families. The Walk for Water on World Water Day is a symbolic act of solidarity and an effort to educate the public about the World Water Crisis. The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time.  Worldwide, nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water [1]. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day [2]. In fact, out of the 2.2 million unsafe drinking water deaths in 2004, 90% were children under the age of five [3]. Water is essential to the treatment of diseases, something especially critical for children.

Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 02:23PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in | CommentsPost a Comment

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