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by Bam Azores | 04-09-2014 23:55
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How many buckets of ice water were poured on heads over the past few months as an answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge? What is the Ice Bucket Challenge? The Ice Bucket Challenge is an activity where someone nominates a person to dump ice water over his/her head or donate to the ALS charity. I think, it is a challenge because no one would really like to get ice water dumped on them and would rather just donate to the charity that Ice Bucket Challenge supports. The charity here is for research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also called Lou Gehrig?s disease. According to an Aljazeera article I read, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised more than $100 million dollars in just a month. That's great because more research needs to be done on ALS which is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting many people all over the world. Now the ALS Association in the US is trying to figure out how to use the funds they raised in the best way. The Ice Bucket Challenge was actually a good way of raising funds for their charity using social media and by challenging celebrities to do it, the charity got a lot of awareness in the disease. ALS became known all over the world. But wait a minute! What about all that water that was used to accomplish the challenge? Thousands of people each with a bucket of water is a LOT of water wasted. What is a bucket of water? In many poor countries, people, even children, have to walk several kilometers just to fetch a bucket of water for their families. With the shortage of potable water in many places all over the world, could there have been another challenge instead of this? Honestly, I was nominated by my sister and I actually did the Ice Bucket Challenge. But I did it with a twist. See here https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204743350644038&set=vb.1245307353&type=2&theater I don't know who made this cartoon drawing that I saw on FB but this describes exactly what I want to say. Let?s save water! |
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Dear Bam Azores, please change the privacy of your facebook video so that we can see the video.
Posted 16-09-2014 13:42
Nice article! However, I think that the waste part is pretty much negligible, as Sadam says: the water that the U.S uses every 21 seconds. It may be a waste of water, but we should focus on much worse cases of water waste. By that I mean that an average ice bucket challenge needs about 8 litres of water, while brushing your teeth with the faucet running for 45 seconds will use 7 litres a time, not talking about an average swimming pool, which holds about 60.000 litres of water(7500 times more), and does not offer anything to charity. It is important to try to avoid the waste of water, but when it comes to it, there are many more important factors, than this challenge.
Posted 08-09-2014 07:24
yup buddy we agree with you.... though water loss is there a disease can be cured well something positive. i think such thinking can be developed to save the enviroment as well.
Posted 07-09-2014 12:16
I agree with you...Most probably the hype has gone beyond the real intention of the challenge and thats making the problem...I am writing my next report on the same issue...Just wait, but from a different angle!!!
Posted 07-09-2014 01:53
I too did the ice bucket challenge as was nominated for the same by a friend.
The day I took the challenge I did not bathe, else I used the bucket of water as alternative for bathing & completing the challenge also. As such we use more than a bucket to bathe, this way I saved water & donated to the cause as well.
This is my way of looking at the issue.
Posted 06-09-2014 21:21
Awesome Article dear Bam Azores , and in addition to what you said and from my point of view " I saw this challenge is just a marketing idea to get benefit of something and destroy and waste something else , and this is against what we have learned that , your rights is save and good until it effects negatively the rights of others, and the Water and the environment has a rights too just like humans "
I have also read in "9gag.tv" website a numbers that made me shocked, where they said more than 22.5 million litters have wasted in this challenge ! where this amount of water can give the American people the needed water supply by = 0.006 Hours .
for this my coming report will be about water problem and challenges in Yemen .
Posted 05-09-2014 23:24
Though there was wastage of water, at least we came to know about the existence of ALS disease. the challenge was successful in raising both awareness and fund for the disease as it went viral in social media, was able to grab headline at major newspaper and mass medias.
As Arushi, we can run the challenge like "rice bucket challenge" or "wheat bucket challenge" (depending upon the popularity of these crops).
And how about,"Planting 2 trees Challenge" for raising awareness on environment and advantages of afforestation and plantation.
Posted 05-09-2014 22:44
We should start change in a positive way. Rice bucket challenge was a good one. We can help people in many ways, we should not waste our resources. Thanks to the writer.
Posted 05-09-2014 19:17
I also agree with Arushi that "Rice Bucket Challenge" is even much better version. There are so many other ways to raise awareness.
Posted 05-09-2014 18:30
The Ice Bucket Challenge is taking a hefty toll on the environment, especially when many areas around the world faced water shortage. according to media 1.2 million videos currently circulating the Internet, and it adds up to almost 5 million gallons of wasted water. And that??s not even including the ice cubes.
Posted 05-09-2014 18:24
Wonderful perception ambassador. Indeed, in the name of 'Bucket Challenge' many of the world citizens wasted clean and potable water. Where in many parts of the globe, water is unavailable and in some parts wastage is on the rise. Time to raise civic sense. However, I pray for the patients of ALS who have been suffering.
Regards! :)
Posted 05-09-2014 16:51
Thanks for emphasising the wastage of water behind this challenge. India's version "Rice bucket challenge" is a better version where you donate packet of rice to poor and take a photo to post it. I did "Rice bucket challenge". For ALS I read a lot about ALS and discussed with my friends to spread it's awareness. Like you did it with twist , few people used sea water to avoid wasting water .
Posted 05-09-2014 16:12
Thanks for the comments. I really like the idea of the Dolls bucket challenge in Thailand and the Rice bucket challenge in India. There are many ways we can raise awareness for all our advocacies.
Posted 05-09-2014 11:01
So true but I guess it did raise awareness on the disease. a coin has always both sides. :) Thanks for sharing Bam.
Posted 05-09-2014 10:22
yeah..definitely agree with you, this ALS ice bucket chanllenge is a waste of water. :(
Posted 05-09-2014 02:03
This challenge is EVERYWHERE :) I did it about a week ago, nominated by my friends. However, I agree with you that it's kind of like wasting water. But, in Thailand, they're people who changed the challenge to "Dolls bucket challenge." They used dolls instead of water and donated those dolls to the orphanages.
Posted 05-09-2014 00:25
hey thanks for sharing
Posted 05-09-2014 00:15