While children in the western world are choosing between Pepsi and Coca-Cola, 2 million children in Asia and Africa die each year from water related diseases.

Pouring yourselves a glass of clean safe water seems to be so obvious to you but it will never happen in the lives of more than one billion people.
One in six people has no access to safe water.
Over 2.5 billion people lack access to water for sanitation.
The simple act of washing hands with soap and water, such a basic and nonchalant act for all of you, will never happen in the lives of 2.5 billion people.
Two out of three people will live with a water shortage by 2025.
One third will live with absolute lack of water.

2.5 million People die each year from water related diseases.
A child dies from absence of safe drinking water every 15 seconds.
And still these are the priorities:
It is estimated that the funds that are required to provide universal access to clean water and sanitation, are 50 billion dollars per year.
Currently, only one fifth of this amount is spent each year on water system.
World military spending is about a trillion dollars per year.
Humans cherish life and supposedly see death as an absolute bad. But still invest 20 times more money on what takes lives instead of what gives them. More frightening comparative costs: In Europe, $11 billion is spent each year on ice cream; $105 billion is spent annually on alcoholic drinks, twice the amount required to ensure water, sanitation and hygiene for all.

Poor people in the developing world pay on average 12 times more per liter of water than fellow citizens connected to a municipal system. These poverty-stricken people use less water, most of it is dirty and contaminated.
Millions of people have no chance but to drink water that kills them. In some slums surrounding the cities of developing countries, families often have to spend 10% of their income to buy water for household needs.
The population of the Kibeira slum in Nairobi, Kenya pay up to 5 times the price for a liter of water than the average American citizen.

And things are getting worse: The balance between humanity's demands for fresh water and the quantity available is already precarious.
Over the past 70 years, global population has tripled, from 2 to 6.7 billion, and water use has grown six-fold. The world’s population is projected to increase to 9.3 billion by 2050.

Two billion people get less than the 50 liters of water a day considered necessary to meet basic drinking, sanitation and cooking needs.
In 2050, 4 billion people might be unable to meet the requirement.
By 2015, nearly 3 billion people – 40% of the projected world population-are expected to live in countries that find it difficult or impossible to mobilize enough water to satisfy the food, industrial, and domestic needs of their citizens.

To pace the population growth, 70% of the entire world’s fresh water will have to be used by 2025.

That would leave only 10% for all the other living creatures.
They spit on other humans and on their future, so what are the chances that they would care for non-human animals dying from thirst?

The political and violent conflicts over fresh water, could erupt in coming decades as populations grow and more countries face water stress and outright scarcity.

Humans are so indifferent to the fate of others. What doesn’t directly affect them isn’t worth any attention. Observe the forecast and situation:
Water covers about two-thirds of the earth's surface, but most is too salty for use. Only 2.5% of the world’s water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is locked up in the icecaps and glaciers.
Of what is left (0.83%), about 20% is in remote areas (what leaves 0.64% of the available water) and much of the rest arrives at the wrong time and place, as monsoons and floods. Humans can use only 0.08% of all the earth's water. Yet, over the next two decades our use is estimated to increase by 40%.
Do you think that if humans hear this estimation, they would stop filling their private pools? Stop washing their cars twice a week? Stop taking a long bubble bath?

As population and industrialization grow, the worldwide renewable water supply per person has fallen 60%, but the ones who don’t feel it don’t care, as long as they got fresh water supply, As long as they can wash their "precious" cars, everything is "cool".

The strongest evidence for the argument that humans thirst each other to death is of course the fact that they still consume animal products, which is cruel from every single aspect, including toward other humans, especially from water shortage perspective. The following facts don’t seem to impress non vegan humans:

• "Farm Animals" produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population - 86,600 pounds per second.
• The amount of water that is used to produce a single hamburger is enough for 17 showers.
• Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all the water used in the United States. And it causes more water pollution than any other industry.
• It takes about 180 liters of water to produce one egg.
• A kilo of beef takes about 50 times more water to produce than a kilo of Soya beans or rice.

The water distribution is an outrage: 12% of the world’s population uses 85% of its water. These 12% don’t live in the third world.

Asia holds 60% of the world’s population but only 36% of the world’s useable freshwater.

700 million Asians don’t have access to safe water and 2 billion don’t have access to sanitation. 70% of Asia rural areas don’t have access to water for sanitation use.

300 million people in Africa alone don’t have access to safe drinking water. 350 million don’t have access to water for sanitation. In the rural areas of Africa more than half of the people don’t have access to either of them.

Half of the rural Latin American areas don’t have access to sanitation. 40% don’t have access to safe water.

Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars.

Two flushes of your toilet uses as much water as the average person in the developing world uses for a whole day’s washing, cleaning, cooking and drinking.

The gaps between the per capita water use in the world's different regions are enormous. In Africa, household water use, averages 47 liters per person per day, while in Asia, the average is closer to 95 liters.
In contrast, residents of the United Kingdom average 334 liters per person per day.

The United States leads the world at an estimated 578 liters per person per day.
Almost 12.5 times the amount of the African average household.

Ignoring all this horrible facts, governments are signing away their control over domestic water supplies to trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, its expected successor, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the World Trade Organization. These global trade institutions effectively give transnational corporations unprecedented access to the freshwater resources of signatory countries.
Already, corporations have started to sue governments in order to gain access to domestic water sources, and armed with the protection of these international trade agreements, they are setting their sights on the commercialization of water.

Water is listed as a "good" in WTO (World Trade Organization) and as an "investment" in NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). It is to be included as a "service" in the upcoming WTO services negotiations (the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and in the FTAA. Under the "National Treatment" provisions of NAFTA and the GATS (General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade), signatory governments who privatize municipal water services will be obliged to permit competitive bids from transnational water-service corporations. Similarly, once a permit is granted to a domestic company to export water for commercial purposes, foreign corporations will have the right to set up operations in the host country.

Some examples of water waste:
15 litters while brushing teeth
22 liters each time a toilet is flushed
150,000 liters to produce a ton of steel
750,000 liters to produce a ton of newsprint

Although humans can use less than 0.08% of all the earth's water, the pollution increases and the amount of usable water decrease.
The poor are the first to suffer from pollution as they are often forced to use water from downstream sources and do not have the access to adequate sanitation that the rich enjoy.

In developed countries, chemical runoff and acid rain pollute streams and force investments of billions of dollars for water treatment. In developing countries, 90% to 95% of all sewage and 70% of all industrial wasters are dumped un-treated into surface water. In developing countries there is no money for water treatment.

Inadequate water supplies are both a cause and an effect of poverty. The effects of inadequate water supply - diseases, time and energy expended in the daily collection, high costs of the water collection units, etc. are all exacerbating the poverty trap.

Similar inequities in access to safe water, especially in rural areas, force women in developing countries to spend hours every day fetching water, causing an enormous drain on their energy and health.

One billion people, mostly women, but children too, must make a three hour journey by foot each day just to obtain their drinking water. To keep her family clean and healthy, a woman needs to fetch 200 liters of water every day.

In addition to traveling such long distances, the women have to wait in line for their turn to collect water. Waiting time can add up to five hours on the journey time.
Some traditional water sources are almost dry for several months of the year and it can take up to an hour for one woman to fill her bucket. To avoid such long waits many women get up in the middle of the night to walk to the water source when there is no line.

Traditional wells are often little more than waterholes dug deeper and deeper as the dry season progresses. They can be very difficult to reach, their sides are steep and sometimes the wells collapse killing women and children.
The paths to the wells are narrow and slippery, many accidents occur. Imagine the frustration of walking three miles toward home with a heavy water pot, falling and losing all the water so carefully collected, and probably breaking the pot as well.

Water containers usually hold about 20 liters of water which weigh 20 kilograms. Constant carrying of such heavy weights, commonly on the head, causes severe health implications on the back and hip. Backache and joint pains are common and in extreme cases curved spines and pelvic deformities can result.

Children throughout the world, suffer many serious problems as a result of unclean and a total lack of water. Their health and education are directly affected by the water their families need to drink, cook and wash with everyday.
In many countries, children, particularly girls, are responsible for the collection of water. Girls as young as 10 years-old may take the main responsibility for drawing and carrying the family’s water. The size of water container may vary according to the age of the child. They must carry it up to three or four miles. Carrying such heavy weights is damaging in the long-term for adult women, for girls there are even more serious implications given their physical immaturity. In particular, there can be damage to the head, neck and spine.
In some cultures it is customary for girls to be married as young as 10-years-old. They go to live with their husband’s family and are expected to perform many domestic tasks for their parents-in-law as part of learning their future housekeeping duties. Collecting water is one of their most important jobs and they may need to make several trips in one day. Collecting water is not only physically stressful but an extreme time consumer. One of the most serious effects is that girls are often unable to attend school, which is their only hope for getting out of their poor lives.

Lack of access to safe water supply and sanitation results in hundreds of millions of cases of water related diseases, and more than 5 million deaths, every year.
Water contaminated by human, chemical or industrial wastes can cause a variety of communicable diseases through ingestion or physical contact:
Water-borne diseases: caused by the ingestion of water contaminated by human or animal faeces and urine containing pathogenic bacteria or viruses; include cholera, typhoid, amoebic and bacillary dysentery and other diarrhoeal diseases.
Water-washed diseases: caused by poor personal hygiene and skin or eye contact with contaminated water; include scabies, trachoma and flea, lice and tick-borne diseases.
Water-based diseases: caused by parasites found in intermediate organisms living in water; include dracunculiasis, schistosomiasis and other helminths.
Water-related diseases caused by insect vectors which breed in water: include dengue, filariasis, malaria, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis and yellow fever.

There are approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhoea each year causing 2.2 million deaths, mostly among children under the age of five.
Intestinal worms infect about 10% of the population of the developing world. These can be controlled through better sanitation, hygiene and water supply. Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anemia and retarded growth, depending upon the severity of the infection.

It is estimated that 6 million people are blind from trachoma and the population at risk from this disease is approximately 500 million.

It is estimated that nearly 28 million people suffer from chronic fluorosis primarily due to exposure to fluoride in drinking-water, in China alone.

20% of the people who have Japanese encephalitis with clinical symptoms die. 35% have permanent brain damage.

Of the 200 million people in the world, infected with the worm that causes schistosomiasis, some 20 million suffer severe consequences, such as renal failure, bladder cancer, and liver fibrosis. The disease is still found in 74 countries.
80% of transmission takes place in Africa south of the Sahara.
88 million are children under fifteen years of age.

Malaria causes 300 to 500 million cases of acute illness each year. Two billion people are at risk, with 100 million people affected at any time. Malaria kills a child every 30 seconds. About 90% of the annual global rate of deaths from malaria occurs in south of the Sahara Africa. The disease costs Africa more than $12 million annually and slows economic growth in African countries by 1.3% a year.

At any given time half of all people in the developing world are suffering from one or more of the six main diseases associated with water supply and sanitation - diarrhoea, ascaris, dracunculiasis, hookworm, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

Although these diseases are about 20% of the global diseases burden, they receive less than 1% of the total public and private funds for health research.

Why should all the suffering creatures wait for you to figure out how to change these priorities?