We’re thisclose to our goal of 100,000 signers on our Water for the World petition, but we need your help to get there before next week. If you haven’t already, please sign the petition, here. And if you’ve already signed, please share it with your friends through a friendly email or posting the link on Facebook, Twitter or another social networking website.

More than 90,000 ONE members from across the country have signed our petition calling on senators to cosponsor the Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009. This critical legislation will put American ingenuity and resources behind the global effort to bring clean water to the 884 million people who struggle to survive without access to this most basic resource.

But just as dirty water is a major obstacle to ending global poverty, a lack of Senate cosponsors is the biggest obstacle to passing the Water for the World Act. The bill is currently stuck in the Foreign Relations committee and needs more cosponsors to get the attention of senate leaders. Our campaign has already helped convince one senator to cosponsor the Water for the World Act — just imagine how many more will jump on board when we show up to deliver a call to action from thousands of their constituents.

Next week, ONE staff and volunteers are going to deliver this petition directly to Senate offices on Capitol Hill. That means we only have a few more days to spread the word about this important campaign. Please help by signing the petition if you haven’t already, and sharing it with your friends if you have.

It’s going to take at least 100 thousand of us to help bring first-time, sustainable access to clean water and sanitation to 100 million of the world’s poorest people in 2015. Together, I know we can do it.

-Emily Stivers