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-Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
-The Edina High School chapter of Amnesty International seeks to:
-help develop a more worldly perspective in Edina students and -spread awareness about worldwide human rights violations
-Through campaigning and international solidarity, Amnesty International inspires people worldwide so we can all work to improve human rights.
The UN suggests that each person needs 20-50 liters of safe freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning
-World Water Assessment Programme
More than one in six people worldwide - 894 million - don't have access to this amount of safe freshwater
-WHO, UNICEF, and JMP
Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
-Charitywater.org
The cost per person for having 10 liters of safe drinking water every day is just $2 USD a year.
-Ashok Gadgil
Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil
-CBS News, FLOW.
In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.
-World Water Assessment Programme
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any warclaims through guns
-Water.org
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Tap Water
Filtered Water
Bottled Water 1.27$ per Gallon
.13$ per Gallon
.0015$ per Gallon
“Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the
health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be
deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic
circumstance”
ARTICLE 31
www.article31.org
-Sign the petition for
adding the right to clean
and accessible water to
the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
-Stop buying bottled
water, when possible
-Dispose of
Pharmaceuticals Properly
-Contact your local
representative and let
them know how you feel
THANK YOU
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