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The Waterband
Wishing Well was established as a vessel to educate our world
about global water issues while raising funds for select
non-profit organizations who share our same ideals.
Inspired by a greater calling, the members of
Waterband discovered that beyond music, they all
share a common interest to help us all live in a
clean water world.
In
the last
two years,
Waterband raised and donated
over
$4000.00 in their
effort to help.
Each year, Waterband's Waishing Well promotes two main events to foster the growth
of the Wishing Well -
World Water Day and
Waterband Waterfest.
2010 looks even
brighter as Waterband's Wishing Well extends it's
efforts by kicking off on World Water Day with
"Water: On Tap". This effort is to help change
societal behavior away from bottled water and back
to the tap.
The beneficiaries for 2010
were selected to cover a wide assortment of water
related issues including filtration, wetlands,
rivers, sanitation, irrigation and more.
For
the Waterband Wishing Well, Waterband hosts two BIG
fundraisers per year and contributes a portion of
every sale, including CDs, DVD's, T-Shirts, and
Tickets.
Won't
you help too.
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Sponsors
Past and Present
(these are companies or individuals who have contributed more than the average clean-water enthusiast with time and/or money)
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Water Facts
Facts about water, water crisis, drinking water,
sanitation,
and water-related disease.
The Global Water Crisis
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3.575 million people die each year
from water-related disease.
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43% of water-related deaths are due to
diarrhea.
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84% of water-related deaths are in
children ages 0 - 14.
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98% of water-related deaths occur in
the developing world.
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884 million people, lack access to
safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
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The water and sanitation crisis claims
more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
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At any given time, half of the world's
hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related
disease.
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Less than 1% of the world's fresh water
(or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct
human use.
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An American taking a five-minute shower
uses more water than the typical person living in a developing country slum
uses in a whole day.
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About a third of people without access to
an improved water source live on less than $1 a day. More than two thirds of
people without an improved water source live on less than $2 a day.
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Poor people living in the slums often
pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the
same city.
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Without food a person can live for weeks,
but without water you can expect to live only a few days.
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The daily requirement for sanitation,
bathing, and cooking needs, as well as for assuring survival, is about 13.2
gallons per person.
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Water projects in developing countries
fail at an average rate of 50% or higher.
Sanitation
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Only 62% of the world's population has
access to improved sanitation - defined as a sanitation facility that
ensures hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact.
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2.5 billion people lack access to
improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at
all.
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The majority of the illness in the
world is caused by fecal matter
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Lack of sanitation is the world's
biggest cause of infection.
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At any one time, more than half of the
poor in the developing world are ill from causes related to hygiene,
sanitation and water supply.
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88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are
attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene.
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Of the 60 million people added to the
world's towns and cities every year, most occupy impoverished slums and
shanty-towns with no sanitation facilities.
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It is estimated that improved
sanitation facilities could reduce diarrhea-related deaths in young children
by more than one-third. If hygiene promotion is added, such as teaching
proper hand washing, deaths could be reduced by two thirds. It would also
help accelerate economic and social development in countries where
sanitation is a major cause of lost work and school days because of illness.
Impacts on Children
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Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a
water-related disease.
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Children in poor environments often carry
1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.
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1.4 million children die as a result
of diarrhea each year.
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90% of all deaths caused by diarrheal
diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries.
Impacts on Women
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Millions of women and children spend
several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
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A study by the International Water and
Sanitation Centre (IRC) of community water and sanitation projects in 88
communities found that projects designed and run with the full participation
of women are more sustainable and effective than those that do not. This
supports an earlier World Bank study that found that women's participation
was strongly associated with water and sanitation project effectiveness.
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Evidence shows that women are responsible
for half of the world's food production (as opposed to cash crops) and in
most developing countries, rural women produce between 60-80 percent of the
food. Women also have an important role in establishing sustainable use of
resources in small-scale fishing communities, and their knowledge is
valuable for managing and protecting watersheds and wetlands.
Impacts on
Productivity
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On average, every US dollar invested
in water and sanitation provides an economic return of eight US dollars.
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An investment of US$11.3 billion per
year is needed to meet the drinking water and sanitation target of the
Millennium Development Goals, yielding a total payback for US$ 84 billion a
year.
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Other estimated economic benefits of
investing in drinking-water and sanitation.
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272 million school
attendance days a year
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1.5 billion healthy days
for children under five years of age
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Values of deaths averted,
based on discounted future earnings, amounting to US $3.6 billion a year
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Health-care savings of
US$ 7 billion a year for health agencies and US$ 340 million for individuals
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Links
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News
Water: On Tap
Changing Societal
Behavior One Drop At A Time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday,
March 1, 2010
Press Contact: Dominick Rogers, 216-392-2895
www.waterbandswishingwell.org
Cleveland, OH - World
Water Day is Monday, March 22nd 2010 and every year. Waterband’s
Wishing Well is preparing a multitude of activities to help draw attention to
global water issues including a special live, unplugged, online, one-hour music
concert featuring performances by Waterband + many special guests such as Carlos
Jones, Tommy Wiggins and more.
During the live web cast, donations
will be accepted while music plays and highlights of various water issues are
explained. All donations will be given to Waterband’s Wishing Well, an
organization focused on educating and exposing issues related to global water
issues. (www.waterbandswishingwell.org)
“The Waterband Wishing Well is
helping change societal behavior one drop at a time,” says Dominick Rogers,
Executive Director of Waterband’s Wishing Well. “Water is one of the
five primary means to life and we take it for granted. Let’s change that.”
www.waterbandswishingwell.org
Beneficiaries
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper -
http://www.bnriverkeeper.org/
Capitol Square Rotary Honduras
Water Project
Clean Water Action –
http://www.cleanwateraction.org
Flats Oxbow Association –
http://www.voiceoftheflats.org
Food and Water Watch -
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Global Water -
http://www.globalwater.org/
Ohio River Foundation –
http://www.ohioriverfdn.org
The Wetlands Initiative -
http://www.wetlands-initiative.org/
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
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http://www.paconserve.org
What: Water: On Tap
kick-off on World Water Day
Who: Waterband and
special guests
When: Monday, March
22, 2010 - 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Where: World Wide Web
–
www.waterband.com
Why: Raising
awareness of things we take for granted.
Last year, Waterband raised and
donated over $4,000 for the world water cause.
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World Water Day –
March 22
Water: On Tap
World Wide Web concert for
Global Water Issues
Multiple Events All Day
Monday, March 22nd 2010 is World Water Day. To
draw attention and funds to global water issues, a full day
of attention-getting promotions will take place through
multiple events staged in and around Cleveland.
Performances, Parades, and Appearances including a special
live, unplugged, online, one-hour music concert will be held
on the World Wide Web, featuring performances by Waterband +
special guests such as Carlos Jones and Tommy Wiggins. Live
from the Center for the Creative Arts at Cuyahoga Community
College. “Water: On Tap” is this year’s theme.
NAME OF EVENT:
“Water: On Tap”
DATE OF EVENT:
Monday, March 22, 2010 – World Water Day
GOALS: 1.)
Raise Public Awareness of World Water Day
2.)
2010 Focus on drinking tap
water – no bottled water
3.)
Draw attention to water-related
beneficiaries & organizations
4.)
Attract media attention to
World Water Day
EVENT PURPOSE
The purpose of “Water:
On Tap” is to raise awareness of World Water issues and
raise funds for select water related non-profit
organizations. This year’s target is changing societal
behavior away from using plastic water bottles.
EVENT TITLE &
DESCRIPTION
Stage multiple events
to draw public attention to World Water Day. Everyone has
heard of Earthday…. March 22 is World Water Day.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
EVENTS:
Multiple events, both
online and in person, staged throughout Cleveland.
Live online music
concert to coincide with World Water Day and raise awareness
and funds for world water issues.
THEME “WATER: ON TAP”
If you have any
questions about “Water: On Tap”, contact:
Waterband Wishing
Well
Dominick Rogers
at 216-392-2895
drogers@waterbandswishingwell.org
WORLD WATER DAY – MARCH 22
WATERBAND’S WISHING WELL
THEME: “WATER: ON TAP”
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
LOCATION OF EVENT 1:
9:00 AM
Waterband performance
at the Courtyard of Trinity Cathedral
2230 Euclid Ave,
Cleveland, OH
LOCATION OF EVENT 2:
9:30 AM
Parade down Euclid
Avenue from E.22nd Street to Playhouse Square
Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland, OH
LOCATION OF EVENT 3:
10:30 AM
Great Lakes Science
Center
Water H2O = Life
601 Erieside Ave,
Cleveland, OH
Live Acoustic
Performance by Waterband
LOCATION OF EVENT 4:
12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM
(Lunchtime Concert with Waterband – no bottled water please)
Star Plaza, Playhouse
Square
Live Performance by
Waterband
LOCATION OF EVENT 5:
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Cuyahoga Community
College -Center for the Creative Arts
Live Internet Concert
– Featuring Waterband, Tommy Wiggins and Carlos Jones
www.waterbandswishingwell.org
www.waterband.com
www.ustream.tv/channel/waterband-s-world-water-day
LOCATION OF EVENT 6:
5:00 PM
Public Square - South
East Quadrant in front
of
