*$20 can provide clean water to one person for 20 YEARS

*800 million people in the world don't have access to clean, safe drinking water. That's 1 in 9 of us!

* 90% of 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are of children under 5 years old.

* Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause more deaths every year than all forms of violence, including war.

* Millions of women and children in developing nations walk three miles every day to get water that will more than likely make them sick.

http://emismom.blogspot.com/2012/06/im-donating-my-birthday.html