I recently found myself in a restaurant
and I was presented with the typical
question what kind of water you would
like tap or bottled sparkling or still I
gave the waiter my answer and he
returned a few minutes later with the
glass of water I want to drink it and I
noticed that there was a bubble inside
so expecting my right to clean water I
asked him to return it please come back
with the new on new one and went on with
my meal but what would I have done if I
was given this glass of water probably
would have freaked out written a really
nasty yelp review and never returned to
get what if I were to tell you that 1
billion people in the developing world
lack access to clean water that millions
of mothers and their children each day
walk miles and miles in the scorching
heat just to receive water that looked
exactly like the one I had just shown
you that if they were presented with the
water that I had just a bug in it they
would have hugged the stranger that had
given it to them and thank them for
their generosity UNICEF estimates that
3000 children under the age of 5 die
each day from waterborne disease that
means the amount of time I’ve been
speaking 3 children have most likely
already just died now you are probably a
little bit confused how are we in a
water crisis when I think of the earth I
think of revolving sphere of blue of
water but the reality is 97% of that is
undrinkable the 3% of that that is
drinkable we have a really big
competition over and countries are
trying to clean it because water is
power and over half of that is saying
and ice caps or glaciers places that we
can’t really access it 30% of that is in
places where only certain people can
access it because they have the finances
to tap into the underground water so
what does that leave the poor countries
with 1% of easily accessible water I say
easily lightly because that’s where we
see mothers and children being forced to
walk miles because they don’t live in
communities near these fresh waters or
streams so typically people think ok I
hear water crisis I need to solve it by
showering for shorter periods of time or
brushing my teeth and turning off the
tap water but that goes into only 8
percent of what we’re using the reality
is that 70% of what we’re using we don’t
necessarily see
every day it’s an agricultural use or
industrial use and we’re Americans we
like hamburgers we like meat but we’re
really wasting a lot of water with the
food that we’re choosing to eat because
one kilogram of beef requires 13,000
liters of water now to put that in
perspective one kilogram of potato
requires only 100 liters of water there
are many organizations out there that
understand this problem and they’re
going to try to fix it and implement
viable water sources in third-world
countries so I’m gonna tell you a story
of a recent one there was an
organization that implemented a well in
a city called Seine near Bombay they
implemented the well and they taught
everyone within the community how to use
it and then they went back a few months
later expecting really positive outcomes
when they went back and they looked at
the community they realized that
everyone was still sick people were so
dying of waterborne disease and they
were very confused what happened there
was clean water that was accessible when
they talked to people in the community
they actually realized that they were
choosing to drink the dirty water above
the clean water because to them the
dirty water had something that they were
familiar with it was something that they
were tasting that clean water was
actually so foreign to them that it
didn’t taste good to us clean water
tastes like nothing
can you imagine clean water being so
foreign another another story I want to
tell you really quickly is of a New York
Times writer that went into a
third-world comfort country and
interviewed people and she was sitting
with the family that was in front of her
and it was a mother and some of her
children and she saw the mother feeding
the children the dirty water and was so
excited and all the children were
chugging it down like it was chocolate
milk now picture this mother smiling
face when I tell you that two of her
children had already died of waterborne
disease and she was being forced to
continue to feed the rest of her
children the exact thing that had
already killed – for him the point of
this isn’t necessarily to reset you all
with these really haunting facts though
I do hope it does motivate you so reach
out to some organizations and try to
help I want you to understand that
something that seems so tasteless that’s
something that is clear that you don’t
really ever think about you see it every
day
it’s actually the most powerful tool out
there I never want you to underestimate
the power of simply
and that water is actually a privilege
and not a right thank you
and I was presented with the typical
question what kind of water you would
like tap or bottled sparkling or still I
gave the waiter my answer and he
returned a few minutes later with the
glass of water I want to drink it and I
noticed that there was a bubble inside
so expecting my right to clean water I
asked him to return it please come back
with the new on new one and went on with
my meal but what would I have done if I
was given this glass of water probably
would have freaked out written a really
nasty yelp review and never returned to
get what if I were to tell you that 1
billion people in the developing world
lack access to clean water that millions
of mothers and their children each day
walk miles and miles in the scorching
heat just to receive water that looked
exactly like the one I had just shown
you that if they were presented with the
water that I had just a bug in it they
would have hugged the stranger that had
given it to them and thank them for
their generosity UNICEF estimates that
3000 children under the age of 5 die
each day from waterborne disease that
means the amount of time I’ve been
speaking 3 children have most likely
already just died now you are probably a
little bit confused how are we in a
water crisis when I think of the earth I
think of revolving sphere of blue of
water but the reality is 97% of that is
undrinkable the 3% of that that is
drinkable we have a really big
competition over and countries are
trying to clean it because water is
power and over half of that is saying
and ice caps or glaciers places that we
can’t really access it 30% of that is in
places where only certain people can
access it because they have the finances
to tap into the underground water so
what does that leave the poor countries
with 1% of easily accessible water I say
easily lightly because that’s where we
see mothers and children being forced to
walk miles because they don’t live in
communities near these fresh waters or
streams so typically people think ok I
hear water crisis I need to solve it by
showering for shorter periods of time or
brushing my teeth and turning off the
tap water but that goes into only 8
percent of what we’re using the reality
is that 70% of what we’re using we don’t
necessarily see
every day it’s an agricultural use or
industrial use and we’re Americans we
like hamburgers we like meat but we’re
really wasting a lot of water with the
food that we’re choosing to eat because
one kilogram of beef requires 13,000
liters of water now to put that in
perspective one kilogram of potato
requires only 100 liters of water there
are many organizations out there that
understand this problem and they’re
going to try to fix it and implement
viable water sources in third-world
countries so I’m gonna tell you a story
of a recent one there was an
organization that implemented a well in
a city called Seine near Bombay they
implemented the well and they taught
everyone within the community how to use
it and then they went back a few months
later expecting really positive outcomes
when they went back and they looked at
the community they realized that
everyone was still sick people were so
dying of waterborne disease and they
were very confused what happened there
was clean water that was accessible when
they talked to people in the community
they actually realized that they were
choosing to drink the dirty water above
the clean water because to them the
dirty water had something that they were
familiar with it was something that they
were tasting that clean water was
actually so foreign to them that it
didn’t taste good to us clean water
tastes like nothing
can you imagine clean water being so
foreign another another story I want to
tell you really quickly is of a New York
Times writer that went into a
third-world comfort country and
interviewed people and she was sitting
with the family that was in front of her
and it was a mother and some of her
children and she saw the mother feeding
the children the dirty water and was so
excited and all the children were
chugging it down like it was chocolate
milk now picture this mother smiling
face when I tell you that two of her
children had already died of waterborne
disease and she was being forced to
continue to feed the rest of her
children the exact thing that had
already killed – for him the point of
this isn’t necessarily to reset you all
with these really haunting facts though
I do hope it does motivate you so reach
out to some organizations and try to
help I want you to understand that
something that seems so tasteless that’s
something that is clear that you don’t
really ever think about you see it every
day
it’s actually the most powerful tool out
there I never want you to underestimate
the power of simply
and that water is actually a privilege
and not a right thank you
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