Urge World Leaders for Water

To the World Leaders:
As a citizen of the World, I am writing to express my concern on the plight of various communities across the globe living without clean drinking water. You will agree with me that lack of clean drinking water promotes disease, stifles education and economic growth, and more often than not, results in the majority of infant mortality. Ideally, providing clean drinking water to poverty stricken community will ease or eliminate the health crisis caused by lack of clean portable water in many communities in the world. For this reason, I kindly urge the rich nations of the world to work jointly with other less resourceful nations to ensure that lack of clean drinking water is a thing of the past. Water is life, water is wealth, water is power, given water to poverty stricken communities means new life, new hope, and new beginning.

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