Are You Blogging for Blog Action Day 2010?

Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day upon Vimeo. Feature photo: magnusfranklin upon Flickr.

Every year upon October 15th, Change.org encourages bloggers write about a particular emanate as well as help lift awareness. This years thesis is water.

According to a Blog Action Day website, a idea of Blog Action Day is to inspire discussion, which will (hopefully) lead to ideas, plans, as well as actions which will make a difference. If we confirm to participate, we can register your blog with a other 3,767 (and counting) people, pointer a petition, fundraise with charity: water, or donate to water.org.

This year, with a thesis of Water, we have been fervent to shed light upon this often-overlooked topic.

Need some motivation? Read these H2O facts:

- Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. - 40% of Americas rivers as well as 46% of Americas lakes have been too polluted for fishing, swimming, or nautical life. - 500 billion liters of H2O have been compulsory to power all a technology which we make use of any day in a U.S. - An average bathtub binds 151 L of water, while in poorer countries, people live upon 30 L for a whole day. - Poorer people pay 5-10 times some-more than wealthier people in a same city for 1 L of water. - More than 200 million hours of womens time any day is spent pciking up H2O for basic use. - More than 80% of sewage in building countries is liberated untreated, polluting rivers, lakes as well as coastal areas. - 1 in 8 people dont have entrance to purify water. - A 5-minute showering in a U.S. uses some-more H2O than an average person in a building country uses in an complete day. - Nearly 1 billion people dont have entrance to purify celebration water.

Facts from: Blog Action Day, Water.org

You can follow Blog Action Day upon Twitter @blogactionday.

Community Connection:

A group of celebrities joined a purify H2O movement by rock climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro upon January 14th.


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