World Water Day?

I was completely unaware of anything related to this event.  Apparently, since 1993; March 22 was declared World Water Day by the United Nations General Assembly.  This day is designed to encourage people to refrain from using their taps for the entire day in efforts to raise awareness of the plight around the world; water shortage.  Check out these facts regarding water around the world.

• Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water related illness.
• Women spend 200 million hours a day collecting water.
• More than 3x more people lack water than live in the United States.
• The majority of illness is caused by fecal matter.
• More people have cell phones that a toilet.
• Lack of community involvement causes 50% of other projects to fail.

Visit HERE for more in depth statistics for what I talked about above.

I learned about this movement from a very informative YouTube channel that I subscribe to called SourceFed.  They cover 5 randomly interesting stories a day in a segment they call 20 minutes or less.  I find them to very entertaining and the knowledge I gain doesn't hurt as well.  Check them out, here's the video related to this topic.

By choosing to help spread the word about this cause you attribute to potentially saving lives, even if you can't donate you may enlighten someone who can.  Thanks for reading and please feel free to leave comments below.