00:00It was annoying.
00:01Yeah.
00:01I just came for a bit of a run, parched, thirsty, and there was nothing there, so I
00:05had to look somewhere else.
00:07I mean, we take it for granted in Australia, and we've got a lot of fresh, clean water,
00:10so it's good to know that there are people out there raising awareness for it.
00:14Yeah, definitely something I learned today on my run.
00:16So it's actually a fake liquid IV branded water fountain, so for most people, you come
00:21up to it and you can see it looks like a water fountain, but there's no running water.
00:25It's a bit of a quiet privilege here that there's so many water fountains all around
00:29Sydney and Bondi Beach, and Liquid IV has actually been branded on the water fountains at Bondi
00:35as the official hydration partner for the last year or so, so we just felt like it was
00:39a really fitting place to spark a conversation about the cleaning water crisis.
00:44In a country like Australia, where we have safe drinking water and we sometimes take
00:50it for granted, I think being made aware of the broader global challenge is really important,
00:59but often an invisible issue. So this kind of initiative I think is really important for
01:05I guess making that a visible issue, building awareness and understanding about the issue.
01:12The funding gap is significant if we are to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6, which is safe
01:17drinking water for all. It's a very effective way to, I guess, encourage people to reflect and pause
01:27and really engage with the issue of global water and sanitation. You know, it's easier
01:32to kind of read statistics, but when you actually have a real experience of wanting water but not
01:40getting it, I think that it brings home the reality that billions of people face on a daily basis.
01:46I'm on my morning walk as usual and I came past one of these liquid IV stands, I thought I'd
01:52grab some water and it didn't work.
01:53From South Africa, so we had a water shortage issue over there many years ago. People were having to
01:59live on like as much as what a normal American would live on per week in one day. So I
02:04know about the
02:06scarcity but not so much about the other side of things. Yeah, it's a pretty powerful message to say that
02:12not everyone has the luxury of getting access to clean drinking water. I didn't know that particular
02:19statistic but I've had the fortune of actually traveling to lots of countries around the world and
02:23every time I come back to Australia I just realize how lucky we are to actually have access to
02:28fresh drinking water. A lot of countries are not so lucky. I think it's so important to raise awareness
02:33because especially in a place like Bondi Australia, like we use water so much, it's such a big part of
02:38our everyday life. Inadequate access to water and sanitation undoubtedly has a huge impact on women
02:46and children and really exacerbates gender inequality in many, many countries. I think the way in which
02:55it does that is multifold. I think one of the most visible examples is the amount of time that women
03:03and
03:04girls spend collecting water. In many parts of the world, women and girls will spend hours a day
03:11collecting water from distant and unsafe water sources. But the impacts go beyond that. There's
03:19impacts on education. Girls are less likely to go to school and stay at school if the school lacks
03:26adequate water and sanitation facilities. There's livelihood impacts and economic impacts of having
03:33to care for children that are unwell due to unsafe water and sanitation.
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