Posts Tagged ‘clean drinking water’

World Water Day 2010

Monday March 22, 2010 is World Water Day 2010.  Established by the United Nations in 1992, its purpose is to build awareness of the lack of clean drinking water and basic sanitation suffered by nearly 1 billion people worldwide.
We have a global water crisis.  Every 15 seconds, a child dies from lack of potable water, [...]

Treating the Deadliest Killer in Developing Nations

Wonder what the deadliest killer is in Africa and Asia?  Is it AIDS?  Malaria?
You’d be wrong on both counts.  More people die each year from diarrhea than any other illness in these areas.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than 1.6 million children under the age of 5 die from this preventable disease.  [...]