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The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be. Started out as a simple humanitarian vacation. An orphanage where scarce and contaminated water was so devastating. Effects of contaminated water. So little, so late. Fetching water for the school. Waiting for your turn.
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An orphanage where scarce and contaminated water was so devastating.
The second part of the equation is the water they are fetching is killing them! O
The Center Earth Human Powered Water Drill. The Center Earth Human Powered
Why should we care? • 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. • 3.75 million people die each year from water-related disease and 84% are children. That is more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. • Diarrhea alone causes 1.4 million children’s deaths every year. • The ability to bring clean safe drinking water to impoverished nations is the number one concern of governments and NGO’s. Yet the problem still remains wholly unsolved.