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This is the video that I choose, I think that is very interesting. I hope you like it!

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What can improve access to drinking water?

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What can improve access to drinking water?

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Education
When students are freed from gathering water, they return to class. With proper and safe latrines, girls stay in school through their teenage years.

Health
Safe water, clean hands, healthy bodies. Time lost to sickness is reduced and people can get back to the work of lifting themselves out of poverty.

Hunger
Access to water leads to food security. With less crop loss, hunger is reduced. Schools can feed students with gardens, reducing costs.

Poverty
Access to water can break the cycle of poverty. The communities we serve are ready to grow. We can't wait to see how they choose to do it.

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How many people don't have access to clean water?

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How many people don't have access to clean water?

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Nearly one billion people do not have access to clean, safe water - that's the equivalent of 1 in 8 people on the planet!

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One of the greatest causes of poverty in Africa is also the most overlooked...the lack of access to clean drinking water.

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There are a number of reasons why poverty has become an epidemic in Africa. Poverty can be the result of political instability, ethnic conflicts, climate change and other man-made causes.

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This is a link to an interesting web page!

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Global Water Poverty Statistics

EndWaterPoverty.org provides the following facts and statistics about water poverty:

884 million people don't have clean water and 40% of the world's population suffer without a safe toilet, that's 2.5 billion people.

This crisis kills many and dramatically affecting life in developing countries.

Preventable illnesses spread by the crisis heavily overburden health systems. More than half of hospital beds in Sub Saharan Africa are occupied by patients suffering from sanitation and water related diseases.

4000 children die from these diseases every day - they're the biggest killer of young children, killing over five times more than HIV/AIDS and twice as many as malaria.

With children too ill to go to classes, education is suffering. Young girls simply don't attend as there aren't toilets at school, or they aren't safe and private. Other girls spend hours of their day walking to fetch water or caring for ill siblings and have no time for an education at all.

Eradicating water poverty may not require years and years of charity. Simply building and repairing the infrastructure that cleans water and delivers it can eradicate water poverty in the entire communities in which the infrastructure is present.

I would ensure people, particularly children, get clean water by combining this effort with the other major aspects of poverty. I would do this by building high quality, comprehensive schools in poor communities. These schools could offer high quality education for children and adults, including skills training for jobs or for self-employment. These schools would offer nutritional food and clean water. I believe this would solve the three most devastating aspects of poverty which I believe are also the three main self-perpetuating causes of the poverty cycle: lack of education, lack of food and lack of clean water.

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I am the author of Achieve Your Dreams. I also published the book Holding Fire: Short Stories of Self-Destruction. I have two kids who I love so much. I just want to be a good role model for them. I hope what I do here makes them proud of me. Please let me know you think about the post by leaving a comment below!

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EndWaterPoverty.org provides the following facts and statistics about water poverty: 884 million people don't have clean water and 40% of the world's population suffer without a safe toilet, that's 2.5 billion people. This crisis kills many and dramatically affecting life in developing...