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#IceBucketChallenge leaves Scottish island without water, highlighting worldwide scarcity problem
With the Ice Bucket Challenge going viral worldwide, water scarcity has also come under the spotlight even in water abundant places such as Scotland, where a whole island was cut off from the water supply over the hashtag activism craze.
The so-called Ice Bucket Challenge launched in order to raise awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has reached gigantic proportions across the social media sphere as friends nominate each other to a freezing dare. Once challenged, the person has 24 hours to complete the task or donate cash, if they chicken out.
Unfortunately, the amount of clean water that is being used to help those with ALS is decimating water supplies, as the recent example of Colonsay Island in Scotland shows …. http://rt.com/news
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/08/icebucketchallenge-leaves-scottish.html
