Feeling Thirsty?

Today is World Water Day.

And ending today, this past week was World Water Week — restaurants participating in the Tap Project invited their customers to donate a minimum of $1 for the tap water they would normally get for free. For every dollar raised, a child will have clean drinking water for 40 days. Currently, UNICEF provides access to safe water and sanitation facilities while promoting safe hygiene practices in more than 90 countries. By 2015, UNICEF's goal is to reduce the number of people without safe water and basic sanitation by 50 percent.

Oddly enough, New York is not cited as a participating city for whatever reason. And yet Cincinnati, Ohio is. As is Greenville, South Carolina. Despite this oddity, there are many restaurants in the city that participated in the Tap Project, anyway. In Brooklyn alone, they were a bunch (see here)…and Fort Greene had the largest amount of restaurants participating, out of any of the Brooklyn boroughs.

For those of you who missed the Tap Project this year (see my post about it last year), you can donate right here. I gave $50 — which means a kid will have clean water for 900 days, or almost two and a half years.