{"id":10959,"date":"2010-10-15T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2010-10-15T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:00:19","slug":"blog-action-day-reminds-us-water-is-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/blog-action-day-reminds-us-water-is-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Action Day Reminds Us — "Water is Life""},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is part of 2010’s Blog Action Day<\/a>, where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one important issue. This year’s theme is water<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

With today being blog action day<\/a>, I am reminded of this<\/a> post I wrote in tears a year ago, in hopes to help save lives by donating water filter straws to children in Africa:<\/p>\n

“Yearly, 1.8 million people will die due to waterborne diseases.\u00a0 Sadly, most of these deaths are children under the age of 5, at rate of 5000 children a day.\u00a0 There is a way to reverse and end this tragedy: The Water Solution<\/a> is available and saving lives in Africa.\u00a0 Imagine a small, portable, straw-like device that hangs around the neck of a child and each straw can save a child\u2019s life for one year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…if you\u2019ve ever wanted to save a life, now is the time to participate! Donate<\/a> a water filter to a child in need.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Saving lives and learning about global water topics is important. If you want to “dig deeper into the often shocking, disheartening, yet hopeful issues around water” the the Blog Action Day team<\/a> urges you. They have offered some links to share:<\/p>\n

“The problem of scarce clean water:<\/strong><\/p>\n