The international effort on sanitation and water is in disarray. Make your voice heard.
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Why we campaign
Nothing changes without campaigning
We cannot choose to tackle or not tackle the global crisis in sanitation and water. This is the fundamental issue on which the eradication of poverty depends.
Sanitation and water underpin advances in all areas of development, including health and education.
- Your individual actions create public pressure
- Public pressure creates political will
- Where there is political will there is action
The End Water Poverty campaign is creating this public pressure and is demanding governments provide sanitation and water for the world's poorest people.
Your support is vital if we are to help end the struggle for billions of people who live in squalor and disease.
Your individual action is vital in the fight to End Water Poverty.
We must act now:
- If you haven't already taken our online action to end the global crisis in sanitation and water, please click here to do so now
- Organise an event to raise awareness in your community
- Organise a meeting in your community to discuss a collective action
- Find out if there is an End Water Poverty coalition member in your area
- Write to your local newspaper about the crisis and the importance of sanitation and water
- Please take a few minutes to write to your government representative.
Tell them that:
- There is a global crisis in sanitation and water
- 2.6 billion people struggle without sanitation
- 1.1 billion people live without access to safe water
- 4100 children die every day due to preventable water related diseases
women waste hours each day in the search for water- Girls are denied an education because they are tasked with fetching water, or drop out of school in adolescence because of inadequate sanitation facilities
- The integrated approach of providing water, sanitation and hygiene reduces the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases by an average of 65%
| Thank you! A whopping one million actions have been taken to End Water Poverty! People all over the world have supported the campaign, including over 80,000 people who sent a message to Gordon Brown ahead of the G8 in 2009. Almost 25,000 action takers sent a message to the German Chancellor. 100,000 knitted squares formed a river of support in London and a further 500,000 people in Bangladesh, 142,000 people in Mali and 100,000 people in Nepal have pledged to End Water Poverty. More than 10,000 supporters around the world have taken the End the Stink online action. Together, this action makes it clear that world leaders must commit to a global action plan for sanitation and water if they are serious about poverty reduction. |