Water For Life™ Concerts

• The health impact of inadequate sanitation leads to a number of financial and economic costs including direct medical costs associated with treating sanitation-related illnesses and lost income through reduced or lost productivity and the government costs of providing health services.
• It leads to time and effort losses due to distant or inadequate sanitation facilities, lower product quality resulting from poor water quality, reduced income from tourism (due to high risk of contamination and disease) and clean up costs.
• Every dollar spent on improving sanitation generates economic benefits (about nine times) that far exceed the required sanitation investments. The cost of inaction is enormous. Achieving the MDG for sanitation would result in $66 billion gained through time, productivity, averted illness and death. It is estimated that a 10 year increase in average life expectancy at birth translates into a rise of 0.3-0.4% in economic growth per year.
• In regions where a large proportion of the population is not served with adequate water supply and sanitation, sewage flows directly into streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, affecting coastal and marine ecosystems, fouling the environment and exposing millions of children to disease.
• Especially in urban areas, domestic wastewater, sewage and solid waste improperly discharged presents a variety of concerns from providing breeding grounds for communicable disease vectors to contributing to air, water and soil pollution.
• The results of poor waste management also contribute to a loss of valuable biodiversity. In the case of coral reefs, urban and industrial waste and sewage dumped directly into the ocean or carried by river systems from sources upstream, increase the level of nitrogen in seawater. Scientists estimate that between 70% and 80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants. By continuing polluting the oceans, we are also killing our vital lifeline – oxygen.

Improved sanitation reduces environmental burdens, increases sustainability of environmental resources and allows for a healthier, more secure future for the population and all living organisms.

Bite sized facts

• Improved water supply can reduce diseases by as much as 25%.
• Education and promotion on hygiene (e.g. hand washing) reduce diarrhoeal diseases by 45%.
• Chlorination at point of use for drinking water reduces as much as 39% in diseases.
• Improve access to water would reduce trachoma morbidity by 27%.
• 160 million are infected with schistosomiasis but with basic sanitation this would be reduced by 77%.

Through Water For Life concerts the above problems will be brought to the attention of decision makers and public worldwide by showing videos.  We will try to receive commitments from Local governments toenforce action and provide help. In addition during the concerts and live TV broadcasts a charity will be promoted to raise funds.  The public will be asked to donate via phone, text messaging and internet to help the ongoing problems worldwide.