Water is Life
(Fragile by William Buffett)
In California, this summer we are dealing with a drought. In many countries throughout the world people have been experiencing serious drought for many years. In Ethiopia for example, 8 million of the country's 60 million people are at immediate risk due to drought. A few weeks ago Berkeley Rotary had an amazing guest speaker, Angela Mason ,who works with the World Vision Organization. She is especially focused on those countries who do not have enough water. She believes that the future wars of the world will not be fought over oil but rather over water. In most parts of the world, there are no hot showers, no clean water and no flush toilets. There are actually more cell phones in the world than toilets.
Across the world, women spend two hundred million hours per day collecting water. In fact, most women around the world get up at midnight and walk all night to get water for their families. Angela has worked tirelessly collecting funds to pay for drills to drill water. Many wells across the world have actually been donated by Rotary International. Establishing wells has helped create a whole new life. People have more time to rest and be with their children instead of spending endless hours hauling water, they can plant and irrigate vegetables, have crops, have more money to spend on education for their children and can establish better sanitary conditions for themselves.
In America, per household, we use at least 100 gallons of water per day. The average person in Africa uses about five gallons per day. We can make a difference simply by not letting the water run when we brush our teeth.
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