This year’s World Water Week begins on March 22 and ends on March 28. During this week, the Tap Project will once again raise vital donations and awareness for UNICEF’s water and sanitation programs. The Tap Project was born in New York City in 2007 based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free, and all funds raised would support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world. Currently, the water situation is very critical. Every day, 4,200 children die of water-related diseases. Nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
Donations raised during last year’s Tap Project funded a variety of lifesaving projects—including $323,094 for water access improvements in densely populated villages in Cote d’Ivoire; $139,500 for sanitation improvement in Nicaragua; $139,500 for emergency and response and water, environment and sanitation capacity-building in Iraq; and $69,750 for school sanitation and clean water projects in the Toledo region of Belize.The balance of funds went towards smaller water and sanitation projects around the globe.
Apart from your generous donations, you may also wish to participate as a volunteer. Volunteers are the heart of this project. There are three types of volunteers: Campaign Volunteers, Workplace Coordinators, and Water Walk Volunteers.
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9 users commented in " World Water Week: Make donations to UNICEF’s pro-poor water and sanitation programs "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI really get shocked when I see how people waste water when more than half of the world is facing water scarcity . UNICEF should do more work to increase awareness
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yes, water.
it is an essential that everyone overlook.
it is sad that so many people are dying from the scarcity of water.
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I have already donated for the very worthwhile project. Unfortunately, I cannot volunteer at the present moment.
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I can’t think of a greater cause!
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Hi,
While I applaud this initiative, this gets me onto one of my pet hates. Well two of them.
Number 1, companies who package ordinary water into “Designer Spring Water”, and sell it for a ridiculous amount of money.
number 2, the stupid people who BUY the stuff, and then pose around in running shoes carrying the bottle, and then just throw it in the street.
Sorry did I offend anyone? Maybe, but how about if the companies concerned made a donation to World Water Week, and the people who buy it? Fill your bottle from the tap, and donate the $1 you would have spent.
Zander
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I think it is all about awareness on a broader scale because the more people know about it the less they can ignore it.
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Hi Clement,
Interesting idea, but I agree with Zander above, in so far as you have to get big corporations behind these schemes, and while western consumers are happy to buy bottled water, then the corporations won’t change their tune. So it needs to be a two-pronged attack.
The plan you talk about will obviously work, because it does not cost the restaurant anything. If we asked the restaurant to offer the tap water INSTEAD OF THE BOTTLED WATER THEY WERE ABOUT TO ORDER, I don’t think you’d get the same success.
But then again, as SoHoB said, raising awareness on any scale will only help.
Best of luck with your blog – some very thought provoking posts here.
Cheers
Bill
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Hi Clement
You are doing a wonderful job. Back home water is still a major problem. Just imagine our cities go without water for weeks
Regards
Patrick
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This really is a wonderful cause. We take water for granted in the United States.
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