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Run for Water 2010

4/20/10

by: cloudnwater

6km is the average distance women and children walk every day in the developing world to have access to water.

Currently, close to one billion people don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water (one in eight). 1.8 million people die every year from water-related diarrheal diseases. Ninety percent of those are children under five years of age. 443 million school days are missed due to water-related diarrheal diseases. Fifty percent of malnutrition is caused by water-related diarrheal diseases

This is why we run.

I participated in the Dow Live Earth Run for water 2010 on 18th April to support the cause. Money raised from the event will go towards funding water purification and filtration solutions around the world.

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