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UNITED NATIONS－Jay－Z boycotted premi－um champagne Cristal at his clubs after the brand’sowner made some remarks he didn’t like．Now therap superstar has a new favorite drink：water．（段落1）

Jay－Z，president of Def Jam Records，teamedup with the United Nations and MTV Wednesday toget children involved in the fight against the world－wide water crisis．He cited statistics that 1．1 billionpeople live without clean drinking water and 2．6billion lack proper sanitation．（段落2）

“I figure that once I stumbled upon that，if theinformation was out and young people knew thatthese problems exist while we＇re having PolandSprings at Cipriani and things like that，that we＇llget involved，”said the 36－year－old rapper，refer－ring to the high－class restaurant chain．（段落3）

Jay－Z，whose real name is Shawn Carter，saidhe had been looking for a way to help people，andwhen he visited Africa on tour he was struck at howmany of the world’s poor lacked such a basic ne－cessity（．段落4）

“As I started looking around and looking atways that I could become helpful，it started at thefirst thing—water，something as simple as wa－ter，”he said at a news conference at U．N．head－quarters．“It took very little，very little to see thesenumbers．”（段落5）

MTV film crews will follow the rapper on hisworldwide tour，which begins Sept．9．“The Diaryof Jay－Z：Water for Life”will feature first－personaccounts of meetings with people around the worldwho lack water，MTV President Christina Normansaid．（段落6）

Jay－Z said he wants to build 1，000“playpumps”in Africa by the time the tour is over．Thedevice features a rudimentary merry－go－round thatpumps water from a well into a storage tank as itspins．He also hopes that children who learn aboutthe crisis will tell th本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。