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Since 1980
Serving Ottawa, Nepean, Kanata and Barrhaven
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Supporting
WaterCan to build a well in Africa .
One of my life goals
is to provide at least one well to provide fresh drinking water to an African
village.
Spencer Studio has
teamed up with WaterCan and is running portrait promotions to help
raise funds
for a well in an Ethiopia.
The average cost of
providing clean water and sanitation for a village is $5,000.
We
are donating a portion of Gift Certificate sales
to this project.
Quick Facts from
WaterCan– Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education
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1.1 billion people worldwide lack
access to clean water (WHO/UNICEF)
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2.6 billion people – 42 per cent
of the global population – lack access to basic sanitation like toilets or
safe latrines (WHO/UNICEF)
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Each year, approximately 1.8
million children die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by contaminated water
and poor sanitation – over 5000 children each day (UNICEF)
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At any one time, half of the
world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water and
sanitation-related diseases (UN)
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Hygiene education and promotion of
hand-washing can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by up to 45 per cent (WHO)
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One of the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals (goal 7) is to reduce by half the proportion of
people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic
sanitation by the year 2015. At present, the world is on course for the
drinking water target. However, the world is unlikely to reach the
sanitation target at present rates of progress (UN)
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With sustained funding from the
international community, sanitation for the entire world could be achieved
within one to two decades. In relative terms, the cost of such investment
(approx. $10 billion globally per year) is less than one per cent of annual
world military spending, or about one-third of yearly spending on bottled
water (UN)
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