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Hollywood Star Helps Launch Global Clean Water Campaign

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
23 March 2005 - 12:00pm

Hollywood star power helped launch a global campaign to draw attention to the plight of hundreds of millions around the world who do not have access to clean water.

"Leonardo DiCaprio, who earned a best-actor nomination this year for playing Howard Hughes in "The Aviator," signed a petition that calls on President Bush and other government leaders to commit to a legally binding United Nations treaty declaring clean water a basic human right...About 2.5 billion people worldwide lack water sanitation services, and five million people die from waterborne diseases each year, according to Global Green USA."

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Source: San Jose Mercury News, October 3, 2005
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