Our mission is to help make the right to clean, safe water a worldwide reality.

2. Our mission is to help make the right to clean, safe water a worldwide reality. This project is devoted to raising the level of consciousness regarding worldwide water issues.

3. Agenda • Introduction to the importance of water and the complexities of water issues. • Introduction to WaterCycle. • Who we are. • Breakdown of the three components which make up our project. • Call to action.

4. Water • It is the most common substance on Earth, with us every moment of our lives. • There is a finite amount of fresh water on earth but an exponentially growing demand.

5. Water Distribution

6. Water Consumption Trends

7. WaterCycle • Our mission is to help make the right to clean, safe water a worldwide reality. • WaterCycle is a unique multifaceted project: • African Cycling Expedition • Media Campaign • Water Themed Educational Database • These are just the first steps.

8. Who We Are • Jason Galbraith • Trip Director • Warren Charmicheal • Trip Director • Wes MacDonald • Communications Director • Brad Harmon • Treasurer

9. Who We Are • AngeValejo • Director of Health and Wellness • Ginger Derochie • Director of Education • Eric Kingsley • Research Director

10. African Cycling Expedition

11. African Cycling Expedition • Spanning 10 countries and 2 hemispheres. • Desert to rainforest and every landscape in between. • 6 months, 6 people, 15,000 km

12. Sustainable Tourism and Activism • We have made decisions that will help us leave as little an environmental footprint as possible. • Travel by bicycle. • Go bottled water free. • Eating locally grown food. • Sustainable camping.

13. Media Campaign

14. Media Campaign • ‘Real time’ communications • Spot tracker • Video journal • Website • Documentary • Meeting Africa • Present a new relationship with water • Relating world water issues to our home

15. Water Themed Educational Database • Incorporate • water issues • into everyday • learning • Education is • empowering • Spreading • information • and • technology

16. Environmental Education • Earth’s physical and biological systems. • The dependency of our health as well as social and economic systems on these natural systems. • The positive and negative consequences, both intended and unintended, of the interactions between human-created and natural systems.

17. Responsible Water Management • Sustainable water management practices must be put into place right away. • Implications- economic, social, political and ethical. • Action right now will save the lives of thousands of people today and many more in the future.

18. Final Thoughts • Our approach to helping make the right to clean, safe water a worldwide reality. • Achieving our goals • raising the level of consciousness regarding world water issues • eliminating private control of water resources • the pursuit of sustainable water management strategies • Our project has an educational foundation

19. Water Cycle Thank you for your time. We are all part of the cycle.