{"id":3841,"date":"2010-10-15T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2010-10-15T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T07:26:02","slug":"blog-action-day-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"Blog Action Day 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.change.org\/why-water\">Blog Action Day<\/a> is water:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <strong>Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.<\/strong> Unclean drinking  water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. coli, salmonella,  cholera and hepatitis A.                                                        Given that bouquet  of bacteria, it&#8217;s no surprise that water, or rather lack thereof,  causes 42,000 deaths each week.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>More people have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet.<\/strong> Today, 2.5 billion  people lack access to toilets. This means that sewage spills into  rivers and streams, contaminating                                                        drinking water and  causing disease.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Every day, women and children in Africa walk a combined total of 109 million hours to get water.<\/strong> They do this while  carrying cisterns weighing around 40 pounds when filled in order to  gather water that, in many                                                        cases, is still  polluted. Aside from putting a great deal of strain on their bodies,  walking such long distances keeps                                                        children out of  school and women away from other endeavours that can help improve the  quality of life in their communities.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>It takes 6.3 gallons of water to produce just one hamburger.<\/strong> That 6.3 gallons  covers everything from watering the wheat for the bun and providing  water for the cow to cooking the                                                        patty and baking  the bun. And that&#8217;s just one meal! It would take over 184 billion  gallons of water to make just one                                                        hamburger for  every person in the United States.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>The average American uses 159 gallons of water every day \u2013 more than 15 times the average person in the developing world.<\/strong> From showering and  washing hands to watering\u00a0 lawns and washing cars, Americans  use a lot of water. To put                                                        things into  perspective, the average five-minute shower will use about 10 gallons of  water. Now imagine using that same                                                        amount to bathe,  wash your clothes, cook your meals and quench your thirst.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can check out my advice on how to save water <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/water.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme for Blog Action Day is water: Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Unclean drinking water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. coli, salmonella, cholera and hepatitis A. 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