UNICEF's World Water Week, to be held from March 19 to March 25, is expected to create awareness and find donors and volunteers to identify and support the cause of providing water to the 780 million people who don't have safe drinking water.
In the U.S., UNICEF USA's flagship Tap Project is expected to raise funds and find volunteers to help people get access to safe water.
According to the Tap Project, people visiting restaurants will be requested to donate $1 as their acknowledgement for safe drinking water available to them. The $1 provided by each patron can be used to provide a child safe drinking water for 40 days or provide 40 children with safe drinking water for a day.
In its sixth year running, the Tap Project has been able to contribute $3 million for providing safe drinking water to scores of people around the globe. The funds collected through the 2012 Tap Project program will be used for providing water to Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania, and Cameroon.
“Ethiopia, Haiti and Niger are facing the world’s worst water shortages, but 700 million people in 43 countries are under “water stress,” according to a new reportreleased by the World Bank last month.
“Almost a third of all the bank’s projects in recent history have been water-related, and a total of $54 billion was spent financing them, the report said. Some, of course, have been controversial, since dams, irrigation projects, flood prevention and watershed-management projects often benefit one group at the expense of others. Also, many projects fail, once built, because the host country is not wealthy or sophisticated enough to maintain them.”
read more: New York Times
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