June 18 (Day 110) Saving Lives... for pennies!

The Children's Safe Drinking Water program provides clean drinking water to people who really need it. Every day more than 4,000 children in developing countries die, simply because they don't have clean drinking water. With your help, we can make a difference.

Contaminated Drinking Water is a major problem: 

• More than one billion people do not have access to safe water. 
• Diarrhea caused by drinking contaminated water remains a leading cause of illness and death among infants and children in the developing world. 
• About 1.8 million children die every year due to diarrheal diseases. 
• More children die from diarrheal illnesses like cholera and dysentery than from HIV/AIDS or malaria combined. 
• P&G has collaborated with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) since 1995 to develop safe drinking water systems that people can easily use in their homes. 
• There is conclusive evidence that simple, low-cost interventions at the community level can dramatically improve the quality of household stored water and greatly reduce the risk of diarrheal disease and death. 
• It is well documented that simply providing safe, clean, drinkable water can reduce deadly diarrhea and other devastating diseases by about 50%.

The Children's Safe Drinking Water program is focused on reducing sickness and death resulting from drinking contaminated water. Working with organizations such as PSI, CARE, World Vision, Aquaya Institute, USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the International Council of Nurses, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Save the Children, Samaritan's Purse and Americares, P&G helps distribute PUR packets to people in developing countries and emergency relief situations across the globe.

To date, the Children's Safe Drinking Water program has delivered over 1.6 billion liters of clean drinking water. And we are committed to delivering four billion liters by 2012, more than doubling the efforts of our first four years.

Get involved with the work they are doing with charitable organizations and educational programs that support this effort to bring clean water to people in need around the globe. Together we can make a difference.

Watch a PUR tablet make unsanitary and potentially deadly water drinkable.

Wow... that is impressive!  Won't you please help to make this available to those who need it! 

Make a Donation.  
It costs only 10 cents to provide one packet that will clean up to 10 litres of water! A donation of $1 will provide a child with fresh drinking water for 50 days. A $7.50 donation you can give a child clean water for a year. And, a donation of $30 will provide an entire family clean water for a full year! 

Source:  www.csdw.org