tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63955277147102436292024-03-14T10:30:44.875-07:00Purisoft Water Solutions blogPurisoft Water Solutionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491403365316279412noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395527714710243629.post-63065864066701898092013-04-29T09:00:00.002-07:002013-04-29T09:48:07.016-07:00It is illegal to dump fluoride in lakes, streams and oceans, but, for some strange reason, it’s OK to dump fluoride into our food and water supplies? Hmm...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">In our effort to live healthy, eat well and avoid chemicals in our homes and diet we came across an excellent article on the hazards of flouridated water on </span><a href="http://smallfamilyfootprint.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">smallfamilyfootprint.com</span></a>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> Please read it for the sake of your own and your family's health, you'll be educated and healthier!</span></div>
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"Ever wonder why most kids’ toothpastes have no fluoride? Because kids inevitably will swallow some paste, and fluoride is extremely TOXIC. In fact, eating a tube of toothpaste will <i>kill</i> a child (and seriously harm an adult), so be sure to keep any fluoride paste or mouthwash out of reach of little ones, just like you do with bathroom cleaners and medicines.</div>
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This begs the question:</div>
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<b><i>Why are we putting a toxic chemical that everyone agrees should not be swallowed into our food and water supply in the first place?</i></b></div>
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Most people don’t know that the type of fluoride added to water supplies, toothpastes, and many beverages and foods is typically a waste product of the nuclear, aluminum, and phosphate (fertilizer) industries. The EPA has classified fluoride as a toxin. Fluoride is so toxic that, in addition to being a primary, active ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, pest fumigants and crop pesticides, fluoride is also an active ingredient in anesthetic, hypnotic, and psychiatric drugs, as well as nerve gas used by the military.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Under the U.S. </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/index.cfm" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Safe Water Drinking Act</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">, it is illegal to dump fluoride in lakes, streams and oceans, but, for some strange reason, it’s OK to dump fluoride into our food and water supplies and then rub it into our teeth and gums twice a day. Hmmmmm.</span></div>
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<b><i>Do we really want this stuff in our bodies at all, especially when there are non-toxic alternatives that work just as well?</i></b></div>
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<b>Fluoride Is Not Effective</b></div>
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You might be worried about how removing fluoride from our drinking water or toothpaste might affect our teeth, but you needn’t be.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">While </span><i style="color: #111111;">topically-applied</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> fluoride can help prevent tooth decay in people who eat poorly, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/nobenefit.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">all of the recent large-scale studies</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> of water fluoridation have shown that there are no proven, positive effects from the practice. None. No proof. But there is plenty of </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">proof of harm</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">, including dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and bone scarring, brain tumors, fluoroderma, and more. In fact, the</span><a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #367116; text-decoration: underline;">most recent Harvard study</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> found that fluoride exposure can impair the neurological development of children!</span></div>
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According to statistics from the World Health Organization, the tooth decay rates of countries which do <i>not</i> fluoridate their water supplies are just as low, or even lower, than those countries which do. Furthermore, several studies published since 2000 have reported that there has been no increase in tooth decay rates noted in communities which ended water fluoridation.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Fluoridation is illegal, banned or just not used in an </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">overwhelming number of countries</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">, including most industrialized countries. Despite pressure from the dental industry, 97% of continental western </span><a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/water_europe/" style="color: #111111;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #367116; text-decoration: underline;">Europe has rejected</span>,</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> banned, or stopped fluoridation due to environmental, health, legal, or ethical concerns. And yet, their children’s teeth are just as healthy as children’s teeth in the U.S! In fact, in many parts of Europe where traditional, whole food diets prevail, they are healthier.</span></div>
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The good news is that the voice of concerned, unbiased science is beginning to overwhelm all the pro-fluoride industry propaganda. For example, in November 2006, <b><i>the American Dental Association advised parents to avoid giving fluoridated water to babies or using it to make formula.</i></b></div>
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<b>That’s right: DO NOT GIVE FLUORIDATED TAP WATER TO BABIES OR USE IT TO MAKE FORMULA!</b></div>
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Take the advice, and protect yourself and your children by avoiding the consumption of fluoride.</div>
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Here’s more about the dangers of fluoride and how to keep your teeth healthy:</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/dangers-of-water-fluoridation" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The Case Against Water Fluoridation</span></a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> – The not-so-nice history of fluoridation, health problems caused or worsened by fluoride, and how to reduce your exposure from the many unexpected sources of fluoride in your life.</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/how-to-stop-tooth-decay" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The Real Cause of Tooth Decay (and How to Stop it Naturally)</span></a></b></span><b style="color: #111111;"> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">- What really causes cavities? It’s not what you think! Can you cure a cavity without a filling? Yes!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">If you still have doubts, this movie from the <a href="http://www.ewg.org/"><span style="color: #274e13; text-decoration: underline;">Environmental Working Group</span></a> expertly sums up how and why to avoid fluoride wherever you can."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Check out </span><a href="http://www.viddler.com/v/a916012c" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">this one</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> by the Floride Action Network, another excellent video.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to Health Canada, 45.1% of Canadians drink fluoridated public water, </span></span>you can see if your water supply is floridated <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://www.theregenesisproject.com/does-my-municipality-fluoridate-the-water/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>75.9% of Ontario has an artificially fluoridated water-supply.</i></span></b></span></div>
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*sources- smallfootprintfamily.com, holisticmed.com, fluoridation.com, fluoridealert.org, hsph.harvard.edu, theregenesisproject.com, United States Environmental Protection Agency </div>
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Purisoft Water Solutionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491403365316279412noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6395527714710243629.post-80956122160184168132011-12-01T09:57:00.000-08:002011-12-23T04:45:23.991-08:00Chlorine in our water, Good or Bad?<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">The use of chlorine in water systems began in the late 19th century as a way to combat diseases like cholera and typhoid and it proved quite effective. As the levels of such diseases dropped, municipal water systems started to add more and more of the powerful disinfectant into the water. Chlorine is an excellent combatant against many parasites and disease-causing pathogens because of its harsh nature. Unfortunately, Chlorine is also a poison. Just as its harshness attacks pathogens and parasites, it attacks delicate body tissues when breathed or absorbed through the skin. Also, Researchers have now linked chlorine in drinking water to higher incidences of bladder, rectal and breast cancers. Reportedly chlorine, once in water, interacts with organic compounds to create trihalomethanes (THMs) which when ingested encourage the growth of free radicals that can destroy or damage vital cells in the body. The link between chlorine and bladder and rectal cancers has long been known, but only recently have researchers found a link between common chlorine disinfectant and breast cancer. A recent study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found that women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorine byproducts) in their breast tissue than cancer-free women.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">“ Ottawa (CP)- A new federal analysis concludes that chlorinated drinking water may pose a cancer risk to humans, particularly the risk of bladder cancer. The report by the Laboratory Center for Disease Control, made public yesterday, is based on an exhaustive review of dozens of studies carries out over recent years in Canada and abroad. The review has already spurred the Federal-Provincial Drinking Water Committee to re-examine existing standards for levels of chlorine by-products (CBP’s). Despite the undisputed benefit of chlorination in controlling infectious diseases, the epidemiological studies indicate an elevated incidence of bladder cancer among those who have been exposed to chlorinated drinking water for long periods. ‘ If you put those two lines of evidence together I would say it comes out as a probable link (between chlorinated water and cancer),’ said Health Department expert Donald Wigle, who wrote the review. He said a task force would test drinking water in hundreds of communities across Canada to determine precisely the current concentrations of chlorine by-products... Wigle said consumers could protect themselves from the risk by using household water filters. ” - Chlorinated Drinking Water Linked to Cancer, Toronto Star, Nov. 21, 1999</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately, buying bottled water is not a solution. Besides being expensive, many brands of bottled water come from public municipal water sources that are often treated with chlorine.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">"<i>Individuals who consume chlorinated drinking water have an elevated risk of cancer of the bladder, stomach, pancreas, kidney and rectum as well as Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.</i>" - Dr. Michael J. Plewa</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Chlorine is the greatest crippler and killer of modern times. While it prevented epidemics of one disease, it was creating another. Two decades ago, after the start of chlorinating our drinking water in 1904, the epidemic of heart trouble, cancer and senility began” </i></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>- </i>Saginaw Hospital, J.M. Prince, MD</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i></i></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><i></i></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">While most of us easily recognize the effect of chlorine on the taste and health of drinking and cooking water, but we don’t think much about the water we bathe in everyday. Even if you can’t detect its pungent odor, chlorine may be a hidden menace in your shower. When showering, the heat of the water causes pores to expand and these enlarged pores absorb chlorine instantly. Chlorine can leave skin feeling dry and itchy and leave hair dry, brittle, and prone to dandruff. It can even change your hair color. Chlorine can cause or further aggravate rashes and other skin irritations and leaves eyes feeling sore and itchy. Besides the damaging effects on skin and hair, chlorine can cause health problems when inhaled. Inhaling shower water also allows exposure to volatile organic chemicals (VOCs). Combined with chlorine, these chemicals can be incredibly dangerous to the delicate tissues in the lungs. The hot water and confined nature of a shower vaporizes chlorine and VOCs and this chemical vapor is then taken into the lungs. Inhalation of these chemical vapors cause great problems for asthmatics, and can cause similar lung and sinus problems even for those with healthy respiratory systems. In fact, inhaling chemical-laced steam during a shower actually provides more exposure to dangerous chemicals than drinking that very same water! One estimate is that a bather can be exposed to as much water pollution during a 20-minute hot shower as by drinking two litres of tap water per day.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">A recent study conducted by Cristina Villaneuva of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona found that when THM’s are absorbed through the skin and into the lungs, they hold stronger carcinogenic properties because they aren’t detoxified through the liver. Villaneuva and her team surveyed 1,219 individuals with bladder cancer and 1,271 control individuals without the disease, polling them about their exposure to chlorinated water, including their bathing, swimming and tap water drinking habits. People who live in households with more than 49 micrograms per liter of THM were at double the risk of bladder cancer versus households that have below 8 micrograms per liter of THM. In industrialized countries, the common level is 50 micrograms per liter, the researchers note. The researchers also found that use of swimming pools increased the risk by 57 percent and that people who drank chlorinated water held a 35 percent greater risk. Taking long showers and bathing also increases the risk in households that has water with higher levels of THM.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>“Taking long hot showers is a health risk, according to research presented ...in Anaheim, California, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Showers – and to a lesser extent baths – lead to a greater exposure to toxic chemicals contained in water supplies than does drinking the water. The chemicals evaporate out of the water and are inhaled. They can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. House holders can receive 6 to 100 times more of the chemical by breathing the air around showers and bath than they would by drinking the water." </i></span><i>- </i>Ian Anderson, NEW SCIENTIST, 18 September 1996</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you have concerns about the chlorine in your family's household and drinking water there are affordable solutions. You can remove harmful chlorine from your household water supply with a <a href="http://www.purisoftwater.com/watersofteners-1.html" target="_blank">water softener that has a carbon filter</a>. and you can also remove chlorine and other contaminants from your drinking water with a <a href="http://www.purisoftwater.com/reverseosmosis.html" target="_blank">reverse osmosis drinking water system</a>. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Purisoft Water Solutions also offers a <a href="http://www.purisoftwater.com/bundle-1.html" target="_blank">product bundle</a> featuring the Chlor-a-Soft water softener paired with a 5-stage Reverse Osmosis drinking water system at a very affordable, competitive price.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 22.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 24.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello! Welcome to our new blog! If you have been checking out our <a href="http://www.purisoftwater.com/" target="_blank">website</a> you may have noticed that we have done something a little unusual, that along with information on the products we sell and install, we have included information to help educate our clients about the Global Water Crisis affecting over <i>884 million </i>people on this earth, lack of clean water. While we enjoy seemingly endless supplies of fresh water (the average North American uses <i>400 litres of fresh water a day!</i>) <u><i>a child dies every 15 seconds</i> <i>from water borne disease and lack of clean water</i></u>. We feel a responsibility (and we hope you do too) to care for the lost and thirsty, to help provide life-giving water to our brothers and sisters all over the world. We have chosen <a href="http://www.water.cc/" target="_blank">Living Water International</a> because of the excellent work they do. Since LWI started, they’ve completed more than 10,000 water projects for communities in 26 countries. They provide training programs in shallow well drilling, pump repair, and hygiene education to volunteers and professionals. LWI partners with <a href="http://soapsaves.org/" target="_blank">MeSoap</a> to help provide soap, hygiene training, toilets, water, and other needed sanitation and hygiene supplies to communities in need. This partnership began in Sierra Leone, the country with the world’s second-highest infant mortality rate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As Christians, we have chosen Living Water International not only because they demonstrate the love of God physically, by giving desperate communities essential clean water, but most importantly they help the thirsty to experience true “living water”- the gospel of Jesus Christ- which alone quenches the deepest thirst. By meeting both physical and spiritual needs LWI empowers people, builds up communities, and brings an end to cycles of disease and desperation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Again, we welcome you to our new blog and website, and we hope you find what you’re looking for. If nothing else, please check out <a href="http://www.water.cc/" target="_blank">Living Water International</a>, and see the amazing work they are doing to serve those less fortunate.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL KEY FACTS</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>884 million people</b> in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly <b>one in eight</b> of the world’s population. (WHO-UNICEF)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>1.8 million children die every year</b> as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around<b> 5000 deaths a day</b>. (UNDP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• LWI projects providing safe water and hygiene education at an average cost of <b>twenty dollars per person</b>, for a generation. (LWI)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• The simple act of washing hands with soap and clean water can <b>reduce diarrheal diseases by over 40%</b>. (UNICEF)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• Providing water and hygiene education reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases <b>by an average of 65%</b>. (WHO)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• Water-related disease is the <b>second biggest killer of children</b> worldwide, after acute respiratory infections like tuberculosis. (UNDP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• Water and sanitation infrastructure helps people take the first essential step out of the cycle of poverty and disease.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• At any given time, <b>half the population </b>of the developing world is suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with inadequate provision of water and sanitation. (UNDP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• Around <b>90% of incidences of water-related diseases</b> are due to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in developing countries. (WHO)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>Intestinal worms infect about 10% of the population</b> of the developing world. Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anaemia and stunted growth. (WHO)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• The average North American uses <b><i>400 liters a day</i></b>. European uses 200 liters. (UNDP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• The average person in the developing world uses <b>10 liters of water every day</b> for their drinking, washing and cooking. (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC))</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• On current trends over the next 20 years humans will use <b>40% more water</b> than they do now. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• Agriculture accounts for over <b>80% of the world’s water</b> consumption. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>443 million school days</b> are lost each year due to water-related diseases. (UNDP)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>11% more girls attend</b> <b>school </b>when sanitation is available. (DFID)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">• <b>40 billion working hours</b> are spent carrying water each year in Africa. (Cosgrove and Rijsberman 1998)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Households in rural Africa spend an average of <b>26% of their time fetching water</b>, and it is generally women who are burdened with the task. (DFID)”*</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>“A Global Crisis </b></span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Water. It is at the heart of a daily crisis faced by a billion of the world’s most vulnerable people—a crisis that threatens life and destroys livelihoods on a devastating scale.</b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Unlike war and terrorism, the global water crisis does not make media headlines, despite the fact that it claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. Unlike natural disasters, it does not rally concerted international action, despite the fact that more people die each year from drinking dirty water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes combined.</b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>This is a silent crisis experienced by the poor, and tolerated by those with the resources, technology, and the political power to end it. Yet this is a crisis that is holding back human progress, consigning large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability, and insecurity.</b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>At Living Water International, we are addressing this most basic of needs by helping deprived communities acquire safe, clean water. Our goal is to substantially ease the global water crisis while addressing root causes such as injustice, oppression, and abject poverty. As this happens, communities and worldviews are transformed—both among those in desperate physical need, and among those who have been blessed with much.”</b></span> </blockquote>
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