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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