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!