Buy Tap Water This Week: The Tap Project

Water.  Clean, potable, drinking water.  You know – the stuff we flush our toilets with and sprinkle gallon-after-gallon of on our pristine manicured lawns.  That stuff we actually pay for in plastic bottles that most don’t recycle or even heavy glass bottles shipped half-way around the world. The stuff we pay for when we can get clean, potable water out of the tap any time of day or night. 

Water is something we all take for granted, yet over an estimated 1 billion people worldwide have no access to safe drinking water.  Nearly 6,000 children die each day from water-related illnesses.  This is where the UNICEF Tap Project comes in.  For the next week, March 16-22, restaurants will invite their customers to donate a minimum of $1 for the tap water they would normally get for free. For every dollar raised, a child will have clean drinking water for 40 days.  March 22 also just happens to be World Water Day.

If you want to support this initiative, visit TapProject.org and find a participating restaurant near you.  If there aren’t any in your area, you can always donate online.

People can survive without oil.  We can’t without water.  Blood will be shed a thousand times over due to water issues in the coming years.  That is pretty much a given.  Here in America, there are major water shortages underway in the arid west and also recently in the Georgia region.  For those of us who don’t even think twice about wasting water, we need to think beyond our borders and help change lives as much as possible.  Okay – I’m getting off my soap box now. 

Source: UNICEF Tap Project