This morning, while getting ready for work, I fell into the daily routine of washing my face, brushing my teeth, brushing my hair and getting dressed. Once in the kitchen, I filled a pot with water to boil eggs for breakfast and then poured fresh water from the tap into water bottles while my husband prepared the kids' lunches. The funny thing is that I had resorted to using tap water several times this morning alone and yet, not once did I stop to think about how fortunate we are to have access to clean water.  The sad reality is that many of us Canadians take clean water for granted since it is so readily available. A more somber reality lies in the fact that more than one billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water.