<p>I don't know about you, but I take it for granted that when I turn on the tap in the morning, I'll get clean, fresh water. Nearly one billion people don't have that luxury.</p> <p>Scrap that. Clean water is a right, not a luxury, and I find it shocking that, in this day and age, hundreds of millions of people don't have access to something so fundamentally important to good health.</p> <p>Let's face it, would you expect your friends, your family, <em>your children</em>, to drink water you've collected from a muddy puddle, or from a stream that also serves as a sewage outflow, or from stagnant pools that carry cholera?</p> <p>That's why I'm running 2,012 Kilometres in 2012, to raise &pound;12,000 to buy 12 wells in 12 countries.</p> <p>Please can you help me to give others access to clean water?</p> <p>You'll find more info <a title="Run2012" href="http://www.run2012.org.uk">on my blog</a>, and you can also follow me on <a title="Run2012 on Twitter" href="http://www.twitter.com/run2012k">Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Thank you for your support.</p> <p><em>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe &ndash; they won't be sold on and you won't be sent unwanted emails. </em></p> <p><em>Once you donate, JustGiving will send your money directly to Penny Appeal and will make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. </em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>