Global — We’ve all heard the importance of drinking plenty of H20 and staying hydrated. Not to mention how lovely the skin looks when we get plenty of it, and if you are like me, you love your designer water — whether it was tapped in the Swiss Alps or drawn from artesian wells in Norway.
But for many around the globe, this often overlooked natural resource is just not plentiful enough. Visit blogactionday.org and learn how you can help promote clean water access for everyone.
Quick Facts:
- Every week, nearly 38,000 children under the age of 5 die from unsafe drinking water and unhygienic living conditions.
- African women walk over 40 billion hours each year carrying cisterns weighing up to 18 kilograms to gather water, which is usually still not safe to drink.
- The shiny new iPhone in your pocket requires half a liter of water to charge. That may not seem like much, but with over 80 million active iPhones in the world, that’s 40 million liters to charge those alone.
- That cotton t-shirt you’re wearing right now took 1,514 liters of water to produce, and your jeans required an extra 6,813 liters.
- The US, Mexico and China lead the world in bottled water consumption, with people in the US drinking an average of 200 bottles of water per person each year. Over 17 million barrels of oil are needed to manufacture those water bottles, 86 percent of which will never be recycled.
Chicly Yours,
The Chic Spy
