WaterPartners helps sponsor World Water Day

How many times do you use water per day? The American Water Works Association estimates we use 100 gallons of water in a day. We turn on the faucet and clean water is readily available at our hands, literally. We often take this daily habit for granted but 884 million people worldwide do not share this same convenience.

Our friends at WaterPartners are working to spread access to water to other parts of the world.

Recently, WaterPartners organized an event that attracted 21,000 people to celebrate World Water Day in India. Residents from 500 villages and 211 slums traveled far and wide to join elected officials, international organizations and community leaders to recognize the importance water has on health, sanitation and hygiene.

World Water Day, in its eleventh year, celebrates the improvements made in villages and rallies support to continue future efforts. World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

The celebration in India also made possible by Gramayala, GUARDIAN and PepsiCo Foundation helps bring attention to increasing access to clean water worldwide in developing communities.

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