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Wishing
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Monday, March 22nd - World Water Day

3:00 - 4:00 PM (EDT) Water: On Tap

 
   

About

Water:  On Tap

Beneficiaries

Sponsors

Water Facts

Links

News

Topics

World Water Day

Waterfest

Waterband

3WD 2009

 

   

(Click here to watch)

 

 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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2010 Targeted Beneficiaries

Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper

www.bnriverkeeper.org/

Capitol Square Honduras Water Project

www.columbusrotary.org

Clean Water Action

www.cleanwateraction.org

Flats Oxbow Association

www.voiceoftheflats.org

Food and Water Watch

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Global Water

www.globalwater.org

Ohio River Foundation

www.ohioriverfdn.org

The Wetland Initiative

www.wetlands-initiative.org/

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

www.paconserve.org/

 

 


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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

  • 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.

  • 43% of water-related deaths are due to diarrhea.

  • 84% of water-related deaths are in children ages 0 - 14.

  • 98% of water-related deaths occur in the developing world.

  • 884 million people, lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.

  • The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

  • At any given time, half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.

  • Without food a person can live for weeks, but without water you can expect to live only a few days.

  • The daily requirement for sanitation, bathing, and cooking needs, as well as for assuring survival, is about 13.2 gallons per person.

  • Water projects in developing countries fail at an average rate of 50% or higher.


Sanitation

  • 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.

  • 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all.

  • The majority of the illness in the world is caused by fecal matter

  • Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection.

  • 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.

  • 88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.

  • Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.

  • 1.4 million children die as a result of diarrhea each year.

  • 90% of all deaths caused by diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries.


Impacts on Women

  • Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • On average, every US dollar invested in water and sanitation provides an economic return of eight US dollars. 

  • 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.

  • Other estimated economic benefits of investing in drinking-water and sanitation.

  • 272 million school attendance days a year

  • 1.5 billion healthy days for children under five years of age

  • Values of deaths averted, based on discounted future earnings, amounting to US $3.6 billion a year 

  • Health-care savings of US$ 7 billion a year for health agencies and US$ 340 million for individuals


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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 - 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 Terminal Tower

Terminal Tower, Cleveland, OH

Live Performance by Waterband

 

LOCATION OF EVENT 7:

Participate with other organizations to help with their water-related focus.

Tower City - Cleveland International Film Festival

 

LOCATION OF EVENT 8:

7:30  PM

Live on WCSB with Timmie the Hippie

www.wcsb.org

 


 

 

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