ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged

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Originally Posted by pwnageNick

This makes absolutely no sense. How does making people aware of one disease [ALS] take away from awareness of people dying from unclean water?

By dumping perfectly clean water over your head you are wasting water that could be used to help fix another cause. It is not taking away awareness, it is taking away the possibility to benefit another cause slightly. However, all in all, you can't win everything, and with so many problems linking to different causes and effects, it's hard to do one thing without affecting another.

Originally Posted by BigJ

Your other argument is trying to change the topic, but I'm willing to wager the amount of water thrown over heads for the Challenge (which is reentering the watershed anyway) is a small small fraction of the overall water supply of any city that a Challenge participant lives in (the only reasonable frame of reference in which to make that particular argument).

Firstly, it's not changing the topic, as I clearly mentioned it in my first post regarding this topic. Also, that argument is somewhat irrelevant. That water is essentially mandatory for our day to day lives, and not used to jump onto a bandwagon. Although there is no doubt that we need to use less water in our households, and we most certainly could, it's now become mandatory. However, dumping a couple of liters over your head (for the purpose of becoming part of the bandwagon for most, not all) is not necessary, and there are much more effective ways of helping the cause, like simply donating. A few celebs simply promoting the cause would be good enough, and it wouldn't use up any water.

Originally Posted by pntbll1313

I agree that the $20 million+ dollars doesn't in any way benefit people without clean water, however I'm not certain I see the connection to this making the problem of dying of unclean water worse. While that is a very real issue, I don't see how pouring a bucket of water over my head in Minnesota is going to negatively affect anyone dying of unclean water. It will just go into the ground water, the shower drain, the lake, the air, wherever it is I dumped it. It will then eventually rain down again. There is literally no way I could get this water from Minnesota to anywhere where it would do any good without wasting either more money, gas, or energy than it was worth in the first place (likely worth around a penny).

It is more of a mockery and a pure waste of water really, not just making the problem worse. Money will help benefit the research of ALS and help create a cure. Money will also help cure the lack of water in poor countries. But although water has an indirect effect on ALS, it has a direct effect on thirst, which makes it much more effective in that use.