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Let's have a LifeStraw party!
This is how I would celebrate World Water Day in 2020.
One of my students told me about the LifeStraw yesterday. I learn a lot from my students. Actually, I learn the most from them.
"It's a straw that you can actually stick into the toilet bowl and it filters your water making it potable, on the spot!"
Seriously?
Seriously.
How cool is that?
Very.
After reading up on this wonderful invention, I am convinced that this is the ultimate way to celebrate a day of global awareness.
We have ten years to garner enough support so that on World Water day, 2020, we can distribute LifeStraws to every community in need, across the globe.
LifeStraw parties can be organized through reputed NGOs and government agencies on the ground, where clean water scarcity is at its highest.
This LifeStraw launch will be a huge step up in addressing a plethora of global issues.
Read more about the LifeStraw from the creators:
Sharing a passion to achieve the Millennium Development Goals such as poverty eradication, environmental up-gradation, gender equality, and specifically 'reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water' by the year 2015, we recognize the immense sense of urgency.
At any given moment, about half of the world's poor are suffering from waterborne disease, of which over 6,000 - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.
Today, more than one billion people of the world's population are without access to safe drinking water, causing lack of safe water supply to rob women and young girls of dignity, literacy and time.
Safe water interventions have vast potential to transform the lives of millions of people. Water filtration tools not only provide safe drinking water but also have a positive health impact on the most vulnerable populations, including young children, pregnant women and those with debilitated immune systems.
The Cochrane review (2006) demonstrates that water filters are the most effective interventions amongst all point-of-use water treatment methods for reducing diarrhoeal diseases. This study also proves that it is not enough to treat water at the point-of-source; it must also be made safe at the point of consumption.
LifeStraw® and LifeStraw® Family are both point-of-use water filters - truly unique offerings from Vestergaard Frandsen that address the concerns for affordably obtaining safe drinking water at home and outside.
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