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Do you have any idea how they produce hot dogs? Most disgusting American "food" to consume. Semi srs.Nathan hot dog challenge, while the world dies of starvation
our world is full of fresh water. those people don't have access to it because their leaders don't give a or idea about basic infrastructure, not because we're dumping ice water on our heads. it's like that because our imperialism and obsession over their issues led to a dependence on us anyway. why don't we think domestically for once?
most people don't know what ALS (lou gehrig's disease) is, and it's something that rips families apart from the inside out. i dated a girl whose mom had ALS, and it drained all of their resources even though everyone in the family were upper class professionals. it's a very serious condition that needs attention paid to it. so take your soap box somewhere else.
Do you have any idea how they produce hot dogs? Most disgusting American "food" to consume. Semi srs.
There is a real watet crisis in both the world and in this country. Wasting water is stupid in that regard, but it's not like it's nearly as bad as water parks.
Most waterparks recycle their own water
First, to address the question "Why don't we think domestically?" Because in reality, there are no such things as "domestic issues" or "foreign issues." The world is a single interconnected system, whether or not you choose to think of it that way.
Some information on fresh water:
-97% of water on earth is saline and not directly consumable.
-According to the World Health Organization, about 2.6 billion people lack even a simple improved latrine and 1.1 billion people have no access to any type of improved drinking source water.
-1.6 million people die every year from disease attributable to lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and 90% of these are children under 5.
-160 million people are infected with schistosomiasis causing tens of thousands of deaths yearly.
-Intestinal helminths are plaguing the developing world due to inadequate drinking water, sanitation and hygiene with 133 million suffering from high intensity intestinal infections.
-According to the United Nations, by 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people will live in areas plagued by water scarcity, with two-thirds of the world's population living in water-stressed regions.
So yes, fresh water is a huge problem. Given that the human body can survive only a few days without fresh water, it should be regarded as the highest priority level among all problems with the world today.
As for the source of the problem - it is an issue of both poor management and lack of industrial application. Sadly, we could easily provide everyone on earth with fresh water many times over with a more efficiently managed global economy. With modern purification and desalination techniques, no one today should ever have to worry about fresh water. So technically, ALS should be a bigger challenge from a scientific perspective - but unfortunately, as it stands now, water is a far bigger problem.
Means little. They still get more from other places.
Don't disagree, but can't possibly think it's worse than starving to death...
Water isn't scarce, tbh... the processing and distribution is where the $$$ is at, and where you see the shortage...
yes which brings me to my original point that it has everything to do with poor management and infrastructure and not people dumping buckets of ice on their heads
Just another internet fad like Kony 2012. Do you even know where your money is going?
Yeah I don't claim that the ALS ice bucket challenge is causing a water problem, but it just flies in the face of any solution.
I also don't think the ice thing is terrible and everyone who does it is a horrible person.
Just dump ice water on yourself over some soil that's in a recharge zone. That way every got is happy.
Rainfall in the park?
did you challenge your cats?
Doubt it. Those parks lose a ton of water a day.
So says the guy from SoCal.
It's not so much "crying" as "pointing out an ironic hypocrisy in the challenge."
Urine from the guests?
Interesting, but I doubt that too.
i just find it so petty. its a bucket of water, people acting like they're leaving sprinklers on 24/7 or something
At the End of the day the OP donated a 1000....
People don't realize how important marketing is nowadys..
Sure you lost a bucket of water or whatever, but a good some got donated to a cause..
Funny how some idiots here complain when they probably have never donated for a charity
I'm not a fan of the "Think about people in third-world countries," at ude. I was just responding to the poster who thinks water shortage is a myth or something that only inferior nations deal with.
i just find it so petty. its a bucket of water, people acting like they're leaving sprinklers on 24/7 or something
i wouldn't be one of those. i also think people are blowing it out of proportion
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