George McGraw | The Surprising Truth About Access to Clean Water

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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George McGraw is the founder of DIGDEEP, a non-profit focused on solving the water crisis in America. There are 2.2 million+ Americans who don't have access to the sinks, showers and bathtubs that the rest of us take for granted. George shares the sobering financial and human cost of this dilemma and what needs to be done to fix it.

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0:00.0	The US economy is losing like $9 billion a year almost every year that we allow these
0:05.7	2.2 million Americans to live without running water and it's having major effects on health
0:10.4	like it's causing hundreds of thousands of new cases, preventable cases of waterborne
0:14.6	illness every year.
0:15.6	It's causing 36,000 new cases of type 2 diabetes because people have easier access to sugar
0:21.3	sweetened beverages than water.
0:23.1	It's causing 71,000 new cases of mental illness like anxiety and depression every year again
0:29.4	completely avoidable but you know the stress of waking up every day and understanding
0:34.6	like how am I going to get enough water to make it through the day and organizing your
0:38.8	entire life around that question.
0:41.4	It's taking away hundreds of millions of work hours from adults that have to spend that
0:45.1	time sick or collecting water.
0:46.7	It's taking hundreds of millions of school hours away from children.
0:50.4	It's taking away time for parents to play with their kids and connect and build like a healthy,
0:54.8	happy home life.
0:56.2	And of course it's costing lives.
0:58.2	We estimate that about 610 people die every year because of the impact of the U.S. water
1:04.0	access gap.
1:05.0	That might not seem like a huge number but I mean it's like two passenger plans falling
1:08.7	from the sky every year again completely avoidable.
1:16.4	I'm Srini Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into
1:20.8	the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built
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