Water 101
We all need water to survive. If we don't have it we won't live very long. We require our water to be free of parasites and most minerals.
That's a pretty tough order for us to survive. If our water gets polluted we have three options. Option one: stop drinking it. Option two: drink it anyways. Option three: ship it in from somewhere else.
Option three is the best option of those options but still not ideal. You can buy water at every supermarket here. A normal bottle cost just 10 pesos. For a gallon it's 85 pesos. Each bottle pollutes the earth and if we have to drink 3 or 4 a day at a minimum then that is a lot of waste if multiplied out.
So how can we solve this problem? What is option 4? Well option 4 is not the easiest option and it costs money upfront. That option is to clean the water and deliver it back to people. We can do this with chlorine filters and reverse osmosis.
The concept is not new. It is what every major American city does. So why is this not done all throughout the world? In some areas there is just not enough Capitol to do a project of this size. When the average person makes only 6,000 a year it is hard to save up enough money, even as a group, to pay for such an investment.
To build just one filtration plant for roughly 2000 people it's about $15,000 US dollars as an investment. Not including the land or a way to pipe water to them, they have to come to us.
Option 4 offers the most Eco friendly and long lasting of the goals. For just $7.5 a person this goal can become a reality. It's not that the people in these areas don't have the money it's finding 2000 people to just give up that money and ten wait for us to build the plant and then they still have to maintain it. Plus the $15,000 is probably a very low number. And being able to bring in that volume of water each day can be a big challenge.
What we want to do is start giving people the option to have clean water. One world one goal: clean water. Help us reach this goal, we cannot do this alone.
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