FLOWA film about how a

handful of corporationsstole our water

What is Amnesty International?-Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.

-The Edina High School chapter of Amnesty International seeks to:

-help develop a more worldly perspective in Edina students and -spread awareness about worldwide human rights violations

-Through campaigning and international solidarity, Amnesty International inspires people worldwide so we can all work to improve human rights.

Water Facts The UN suggests that each person needs 20-50 liters of safe freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning

-World Water Assessment Programme

More than one in six people worldwide - 894 million - don't have access to this amount of safe freshwater

-WHO, UNICEF, and JMP

Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.

-Charitywater.org

The cost per person for having 10 liters of safe drinking water every day is just $2 USD a year.

-Ashok Gadgil

More Facts

Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil

-CBS News, FLOW.

In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.

-World Water Assessment Programme

The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns -Water.org

Tap Water

Filtered Water

Bottled Water

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Cost Comparison1.27$ per Gallon

.13$ per Gallon

.0015$ per Gallon

“Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic

circumstance”

ARTICLE 31

www.article31.org

What you Can Do-Sign the petition for adding the right to clean and accessible water to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

-Stop buying bottled water, when possible

-Dispose of Pharmaceuticals Properly

-Contact your local representative and let them know how you feel

THANK YOU