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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Limited-Edition Water.org Bottle With Matt Damon-Signed Thank You
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on November 23, 2010 - 1:57pm
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The limited-edition CamelBak and Water.org bottle from Matt Damon.
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Do most of us take clean water for granted every day?
Disclosure: As we are an independent and objective entertainment publication, this giveaway
is not an endorsement from HollywoodChicago.com for this or any cause.
© 2010 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
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CHICAGO – In our inaugural edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Charity, we have one limited-edition water bottle with a Matt Damon-signed thank you up for grabs in support of the global, non-profit joint effort by Water.org, CamelBak and Matt Damon to raise awareness about the planet’s unsafe water crisis!
Thanks to Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White, Water.org has launched a water campaign called “Hope in a Bottle”. In partnership with CamelBak, Water.org has developed a limited-edition, reusable and environmentally friendly water bottle.
The campaign is running through the holiday season and the bottle can only be purchased at http://gift.water.org with 100 percent of the profits going directly to Water.org projects around the globe. HollywoodChicago.com has secured one of these water bottles plus a Matt Damon-signed card as a thank you to one of our lucky readers!
All in the true spirit of giving, Hope in a Bottle gives you the chance to give a meaningful and original gift to a loved one for the holidays while giving clean water to someone in need. Everyone who buys a bottle will receive a link to follow the progress of a community that their purchase is going to help. This allows you to actually see how your donation is being put to good use.
Water.org can be followed on Twitter here and liked on Facebook here. To win your free CamelBak and Water.org bottle with a Matt Damon-signed thank you courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found below.
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Here are facts about today’s grave water crisis:
- Nearly 1 billion people have no access to clean water and more than 2.5 billion don’t have proper sanitation.
- Water-borne diseases kill 9,000 people (mostly small children) every day. That’s one person every 10 seconds.
- More lives are claimed each year by water-related diseases than by guns and wars.
- Only one in three people in the world have a toilet. More have cell phones.
- In many countries, the impact is felt most deeply by women who gather water, care for stricken children and cope with the ramifications of this life-crushing burden.
To secure your free water bottle and Matt Damon-signed thank you, you must be logged into your HollywoodChicago.com Web site account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having a free Web site account with a valid e-mail address is required to win this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup.
Next, simply answer our question. You must submit your answer using this confidential, Web-based submission form. Please do not comment in this Hookup. Your entry will be invalid if you only comment here and don’t submit into our Web-based form. Please only submit your answer using this submission form.
You must include your first and last name, e-mail address and physical mailing address in your submission. Your personal information will not be sold or shared, will be kept strictly confidential and is only for awarding the winning entry. Please answer our question below.
Do most of us take clean water for granted every day?This Hookup is simple: one reader will be selected as the winner of our free Matt Damon water Hookup in partnership with CamelBak and Water.org! The winner will be mailed his or her water bottle and Matt Damon-signed thank you at our expense. Good luck!
is not an endorsement from HollywoodChicago.com for this or any cause.
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Of course...
Of course we take clean water for granted. We flush the toilet with potable water in this country. I’m sure there are plenty of people around the world that would find that to be insane…
Clean water
Cool!!!
Yes we take it for granted
We take it for granted to the point that we have it all around us and yet we pay a high price for it in stores. I mean who does that? If we took the money that we spend on bottled water in one year in the US, we would have enough money so that the whole world could have clean water as well.
Clean Water for Granted??
Yes. Unfortunately we do, but traveling to third-world countries can give you a real eye opener.
Clean Water - Interesting Facts
Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Unclean drinking water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. coli, salmonella, cholera and hepatitis A. Given that bouquet of bacteria, it’s no surprise that water, or rather lack thereof, causes 42,000 deaths each week.
The average American uses 159 gallons of water every day – more than 15 times the average person in the developing world. From showering and washing our hands to watering our lawns and washing our cars, Americans use a lot of water. To put things into perspective, the average five-minute shower will use about 10 gallons of water. Now imagine using that same amount to bathe, wash your clothes, cook your meals and quench your thirst which is what many people in undeveloped countries do daily.
It seems water is something many people take for granted. Not everyone can go to the local grocery store and pick up a gallon or two of clean water. Not everyone can drink from a faucet without risking his or her life.
* Think about that next time you water your lawn, take a 20-minute shower, or leave the hose on. ;)
**Excerpts take from blogger Julie McElroy
Most people take clean water
Most people take clean water for granted. I don’t because I know that chemicals, pollution, etc., pollute our lakes & oceans. That’s why I drink bottled water.
Most people take clean water
Most people take clean water for granted. I don’t because our lakes and oceans are full of chemical waste, pollution, etc., which causes cancer. That’s why I drink bottled water.
Most people take clean water
Most people take clean water for granted. I don’t because our lakes and oceans are full of chemical waste, pollution, etc., which causes cancer. That’s why I drink bottled water.
Most people take clean water
Most people take clean water for granted. I don’t because our lakes and oceans are full of chemical waste, pollution, etc., which causes cancer. That’s why I drink bottled water.
Yep
Especially here in the Great Lakes, where fresh water is so plentiful