{"id":2245,"date":"2010-08-11T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2010-08-11T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T13:11:17","slug":"how-much-do-you-spend-on-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/how-much-do-you-spend-on-bottled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do You Spend on Bottled Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smm.org\/water\/facts\/\">Science Museum of MN<\/a>, the average American drinks 26 gallons of bottled water a year. \u00a0That is about 416 8oz bottles of water. \u00a0 That adds up to a lot money! \u00a0World Vision estimates that it can dig a well for $13,700. \u00a0If 33 people gave up bottled water for a year and gave that money to World Vision a village could have a healthy and safe water source!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6gXggLwcgc\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6gXggLwcgc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/worldivision\"><strong>more<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A deep well fitted with a hand pump can provide up to 2,800 gallons of safe water a day to benefit as many as 300 people! In many communities, clean water lies hundreds of feet below layers of hard rock. Children have no choice but to walk long distances to find water that is often dirty and disease-ridden. When our drilling teams strike water, entire villages erupt in celebration because a clean water source can cut a community\u2019s child mortality rate by as much as half. &#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/OA_HTML\/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10373&amp;item=154\">Well page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/worldvision\">Donate TODAY!<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Science Museum of MN, the average American drinks 26 gallons of bottled water a year. \u00a0That is about 416 8oz bottles of water. \u00a0 That adds up to a lot money! \u00a0World Vision estimates that it can dig a well for $13,700. \u00a0If 33 people gave up bottled water for a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58],"tags":[575,144,547,576,701],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-vision","tag-bottled-water","tag-drinking-water","tag-water","tag-water-resources","tag-world-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2175,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/water-sources\/","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":0},"title":"Water Sources","author":"crossn81","date":"August 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this video created by Team World Vision. httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wo3FlrzVhaw Can you imagine drinking water like that? Our water isn't anywhere close to that and yet we spend tons of money on bottled water! \u00a0Take a second today and support clean water projects in Africa.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;World Vision&quot;","block_context":{"text":"World Vision","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/world-vision\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2280,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2010\/support-water-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":1},"title":"Support Water Projects","author":"crossn81","date":"August 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Image via Wikipedia I've been busy and haven't done a very good job of promoting my fundraising efforts for Water Projects in Kenya. \u00a0Nevertheless, families need clean access to water throughout the world. \u00a0Can you imagine not having clean water? 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