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Clean water is taken for granted. B9 Plastics is trying to make a change. We are not only attempting to educate people on the seriousness of the world's water situation, but we have a solution. E. coli is the number one cause of infant mortality in the world and our water treatment device kills the bacteria in drinking water. The Science of Water is a powerful and insightful document about water and it's impacts.
More than 1 billion people draw their water from unsafe sources, exposing them to diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, and many others. Over 80 percent of these people live in rural areas where water and sanitation infrastructure is nonexistent. But even in urban and periurban areas of the developing world, water systems frequently fail on basic microbiological quality. Providing access to potable water for more than 1 billion people globally cannot be done overnight. It is estimated that it would cost $23 billion per year to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal, of cutting in half the number of people without access to potable water, by 2015.
Celebrate World Water Day... every March 22nd. What is World Water Day?
In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated March 22 as "World Water Day" to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide. Read More
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