And Not A Drop To Drink

World Water Source - foundation dedicated to funding projects to provide safe water, basic sanitation, and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.

This is a follow-up to a post that I found interesting and meaningful on Ray's Blog:

• Percentage of illness worldwide due to water-borne disease: 80%
• Number of people worldwide lacking basic sanitation: 2.6 billion (40%).
• Number of people without reliable access to safe water: more than 1 billion.
  
• Amount of additional annual spending needed to provide everyone with clean water: $1.7 billion.
• Amount of further additional annual spending needed to provide everyone with basic sanitation: $9.3 billion. (That is, $11 billion total to provide everyone with clean water and basic sanitation.)
• Amount spent worldwide on bottled water annually: $46 billion.

My wife and I have basically stopped buying bottled water for the home, we use a Brita filter, saving us around $20 - $25 a month.