Today, Oct 15th, is Blog Action Day and this year’s focus is Water. Blog Action Day tries to create awareness for an important issue to help the world every year.
Did you know this about Water (from the Blog Action Day site)?
- About 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water,
- 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation,
- 90% of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water are children under five,
- 40% of America’s rivers and 48% of U.S. lakes are too polluted for fishing or swimming,
- Lack of water leads to poverty as (mostly) women and children spend so much time collecting water there is no time for school or work.
Find out more about the problems in our world with water and see what you can do to help!
Here are some charities working to fix the world’s water problems:
charity:water why water.
Water.org
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The Water Project – Please Help Give Clean Safe Water
Imagine H2O
I think of how we take for granted our access to clean water. What is just flipping up a faucet in my kitchen takes miles of walking with a water jug on someone’s back. Let’s see if we can all take a little time out and see what we can do to help.
Here are some other takes on Blog Action Day:
7 Ways to Conserve Water at Home
Now back to our scheduled post…Here are some personal finance articles to check out after you’ve looked at what you can do to help with the world’s water issues:
- Man Vs Debt: How to Suck at Launching a Product
- Pop Economics: Why revenge is so sweet
- Brip Blap: the chocolate diet
- The Saved Quarter: Ways to Make or Save an Extra $1,000 in a Month, Part 2
- Money Crashers: Top Personal Finance Blogs. This is a new chart ranking the top personal finance sites.
- The Financial Blogger: Working For Money or For Passion?
- Canadian Personal Finance Blog: GPS: The Price of Information
- Invest It Wisely: What Do You Need to Get out of the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom?
- Money Smart Life: 529 College Savings Plan Parent Overview
- Mrs Nespy’s Frugal World: 8 Items to Donate Other Than Money
- Cash Flow Sherpas: What can kids teach us about finance?
- Couple Money: How and Why Athletes Go Broke
- Financial Highway: Is Your Identity at Risk from Friends and Family?
And the carnivals Free From Broke has taken part in:
Canadian Finance Carnival #5 – Canadian Finance Blog
Carnival of Personal Finance #278 – Thanksgiving Edition – Canadian Finance Blog
Free Money Finance: Carnival of Money Stories
23 Promotional Offers, Special Deals, and Financial Articles – Finance Blog Carnival #9 | MaximizingMoney.com
Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #160 – October 11th, 2010
Carnival of Wealth #7 – Entrepreneurship Edition — Personal Dividends
Festival of Frugality #251: Seven Habits Edition
My Wealth Builder: The Wealth Builder Carnival #10
Dodgeblogium » Yep, its another BoMS.
Don’t forget – Take a look at the charities that are helping to make water available to all people in the world!
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Thinking about not having clean water to drink kind of puts things into perspective doesn’t it?
I bet there are people all over the world who’d love their biggest problem to be a little credit card debt or trying to figure out how to invest in their 401k.
It absolutely puts things in perspective!
To add to your list, one of last year’s CNN heroes runs a charity called wine:water!
Nice!
Thanks for the mention., and this definitely does put things in perspective. No matter how rich or poor we are, there is always something to complain about, but lack of access to clean water is much more significant than a problem with the alternator! This is really one of the most basic things to have.
It really is a basic need Kevin. I certainly wince when I have to pay for water but the fact that I have it at my disposal puts me at an advantage greater than many people in this world. It’s great that there are organizations out there to help people get water.
I went to a tweetup a while back for charity:water, it was a cool way to raise money for the cause. You paid like $10 for a ticket and the money went to the charity. And thanks for the mention!
Sounds like a cool event!
Sorry I somehow missed this! Thanks for the mention!
You’re very welcome Kaye.
Thanks for the mention Craig and awesome selection of posts here!
You’re welcome Andrew.
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