Ice Bucket Challenge, waste of water? - Hannah

Recently, an charitable activity called “Ice Bucket Challenge” has lit social media on fire, raising both money and attention from public figures. The process goes like this: People make a video of themselves dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads, post it on Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites, and then challenge friends to do the same thing within 24 hours otherwise you need to donate $100 to ALS. This has inspired people like Bill Gates, LeBron James, Chris Christie and Taylor Swift and some other celebrities. Now, Ice Bucket Challenge has involved into normal people.

The main purpose of “Ice Bucket Challenge” is to draw attention and raise money for A.LS. Association. Raising money for disease research is a noble goal, that’s with no doubt. But there exist a most obvious harmful effect which is a waste of water.

I found a calculating data from Google that nearly 6 million gallons of water have been poured out, the average American household uses 320 gallons per day, which means that based on this estimation, nearly 19,000 homes’ daily water usage has been wasted. What a huge data? Is it shocked you? You know at this day and age, third world countries suffer and kids die of thirst. I understand that places like California are in a drought right now, and people living here should be courteous to their neighbors and conserve water for the sake of the community.Maybe we can choose more appropriate methods to donate or express our awareness, not to take such a controversial way. 

Will Oremus, Slate's senior technology writer, urged people to take the “no ice bucket challenge” and just donate the money. I find myself fully agree with him. Nevertheless this activity cannot be attractive and exciting any more, but to some extent, it still works. If you have a warm heart to show your love to A.S.L. Association, I believe you will do it anyway. 

It allows us to live more efficiently, so come on, let's show love to the Association in a positive way!