ISSUES ARE EXACERBATED IN RURAL CHINA. THE OUTBREAK OF WATERBORNE DISEASES FROM A LACK OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER HAS LED TO HARDSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE FILTRATION SOLUTIONS AND REMEDIAL HEALTHCARE.
ISSUES ARE EXACERBATED IN RURAL CHINA. THE OUTBREAK OF WATERBORNE DISEASES FROM A LACK OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER HAS LED TO HARDSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE FILTRATION SOLUTIONS AND REMEDIAL HEALTHCARE.
50% of China’s water sources are polluted, mostly by cancer causing chemicals
WHO and OECD estimate that 20,000 chemical factories are dumping pollutants into our rivers.
The OECD estimates that hundreds of millions of us are drinking water contaminated with chemical pollutants such as arsenic, excessive fluoride, toxins from factory wastewater, agricultural pesticides and landfill waste.
95% of water treatment facilities continue to use ineffective and outdated treatment processes more than a century old.
The problem is well known, but efforts made to clean up our rivers have had limited results. Implementation of infrastructural solutions have been slow and costly.
As a result, most current water treatment facilities were not designed to remove the chemical pollutants commonly found in our water sources today.
More than 100 cancer causing chemical pollutants remains in China’s tap water even after boiling
Pollutants that have been tested positive in tap water include organic pollutants, algae, heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), nitrates, fluorides etc.
The Ministry of Health has openly admitted that water pollution (and air pollution) has helped make cancer a fatal disease for China’s residents. Studies have pointed correlation between water pollution and digestive cancer rates (Ebenstein 2008) in particular.
Many current solutions use filtration techniques that are currently used also may not filter out cancer causing chemicals or retain the healthy minerals needed by our bodies
million people
of the population
schools
Along the Huai River, villages sit on top toxic waste from nearby chemical plants. In these “cancer villages”, children as young as one develop malignant tumors from drinking contaminated water and families are often forced to take out debilitating loans to pay for medical expenses.
Clean water will change these lives. We can change these lives.
CLEAN WATER SHOULD NOT BE A LUXURY.