KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20 /PRNewswire/ — You may not be able to
travel to a developing country and see the global water crisis first hand,
but now you can visit WaterPartners Village — a virtual exploration of
the water crisis — launching across social networking sites, like Second
Life, on World Water Day, March 22.
“The purpose of WaterPartners Village is to use a virtual world to
break down barriers of space, time, language and culture,” said Steve
Byers, director of development and communication for WaterPartners.
“Through characters and places that represent a composite of real-world
experiences, visitors can better understand the daily reality faced by more
than a billion of their fellow world citizens who do not have access to
safe water.”
Second Life, a 3-D virtual world, allows people to see what life is
like for Araja, Dahnay and Miguel, the fictional characters profiled in the
village. The WaterPartners Village characters hail from India, Ethiopia and
Honduras to portray life experiences that differ dramatically from that of
most Americans. These virtual villagers are not real people, but their
stories are compiled from and reflect the experiences of people facing the
daily struggle for clean drinking water and sanitation in the developing
world.
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Ayesha Lakhani // April 11, 2008 at 9:50 am |
Leaders who adopted the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 envisioned halving the proportion of people living without access to basic sanitation by the year 2015 – but we are nowhere near on pace to achieve that goal. Experts predict that by 2015, 2.1 billion people will still lack basic sanitation. At the present rate, sub-Saharan Africa will not reach the target until 2076.
If we take up the challenge, the positive impact will reverberate far beyond better access to clean water. Every dollar invested in water and sanitation yields an estimated seven dollars worth of productive activity. And that comes on top of the immeasurable gains in cutting poverty, improving health and raising living standards.
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