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Photo of NYC water drinker by macskata, photo from a tent camp in Mudtukadu Ami Vitale/UNICEF.
To raise money and awareness about the lack of clean and accessible drinking water, which is the second largest worldwide killer of children under five, the Tap Project is happening again in New York City (and nationwide) through March 22nd, World Water Day. Select restaurants will be inviting customers to donate a minimum of $1 for the tap water they would normally get for free; the money goes to UNICEF.
According to this fact-filled web page, 1.8 million children die each year because of the lack of unclean water and poor sanitation. For every dollar raised with the Tap Project, a child will have clean drinking water for 40 days. Here is a list of all the participating restaurants in New York City.
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why do people want to help people they are destroying? everything you do really creates a wasteland for these people and spending a dollar to alleviate your conscience so they can survive another minute in the hell that you created with your consumerist and polluting ways is sadistic to me. It's better to let them all die.
on the contrary, douchebag in comment 1. it's a basic need that is being filled, i.e. we have the resources that they need, and this is a simple and easy way to help us get those resources to them.
by your faulty logic, is the water better in the hands of members of the "consumerist and polluting" society or in the hands of people who use this access to water to meet extremely basic needs? they win by dying? who exactly are you to determine that, and why should you and not they?
keep in mind, mdowning, that you're arguing with someone who thought babyhitler was a good nickname.
yes, of course. but still...
Now if only people would do this on a regular basis instead of plunking down even more money for bottled water, which not only wastes the money, but creates a wasteful bottle that will probably not be recycled.
If 1.8 million children die annually from a "lack of unclean water," should I be throwing away my Brita and drinking straight from the canal? How can we get more unclean water to these children?