Reason behind my experiment

When you're thirsty, nothing is better for you than a glass of water. All you have to do is turn on the tap and fill your glass, open a bottle of water, or go to your refrigerator's water dispenser. According to the World Health Organization, every year approximately 1.6 million people die from illnesses (usually severe diarrhea) due to drinking unsafe water as it is contaminated and unclear. Another side effect of lack of access to clean water is gender inequality. The chore of gathering water for the family usually rests upon the shoulders of female family members, especially girls. If girls are gathering water all day, then they don't have time to go to school. Thus, access to clean water can result in a population that is not only healthier, but that is better educated, and more able to help improve their community because they are not sick. In the year 2000, the United Nations member countries put together the Millennium Development Goals. The purpose of this program is to reduce poverty and hunger, to tackle ill health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water, and environmental ruin. Access to clean water plays a big part in reaching many of the Millennium Development Goals. 

I wanted to do an experiment that was education and taught me something new. While doing this science project, I thought about all the important science and technology that exists to improve people's lives, like devices to clean their water! I realised that, if we give the people in these unfortunate counties the necessities needed to build their own water filters they will be able to filter their own water and 1.6 million people's lives would be saved annually due to them having access to clean water.