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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Today is World Action Blog Day and our discussion is about Water and how many countrys suffer with poor drinking water. All humans need fresh water and it is our human rights to have access to drinking water as it is how life began and how life sustains
Fresh clean water for all

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At present, almost a billion people on our planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight who are subject to preventable disease and sometimes death because of something that most of us here in Australia take for granted. Clean water is a global human rights issue.

Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren't strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses.90% of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are to children under five years old. Many of these diseases are preventable. The UN predicts that one tenth of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply and sanitation