Over 1.5 billion people do not have access to clean, safe water.
At any one time, more than half the world’s poor are ill due to inadequate sanitation, water or hygiene.
Half the world’s schools do not have access to clean water, nor adequate sanitation.
Nearly a billion, 884 million people do not have access to clean and safe water. 37% of those people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
1 in 8 people world wide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water
443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases.
In developing countries, as much as 80% of illnesses are linked to poor water and sanitation conditions.
Half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from a water-related disease.
Girls under the age of 15 are twice as likely as boys to be the family member responsible for fetching water.
Over half of the developing world's primary schools don't have access to water and sanitation facilities. Without toilets, girls often drop out at puberty.
Diarrhea is more prevalent throughout the developing world largely due to the lower levels of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, along with poorer overall health, hygiene, and nutritional status.
Less than one in three people in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to a proper toilet.
It is estimated that nearly 10% of the global disease burden could be reduced through improved water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and water resource management.
90% of the deaths due to diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years old, mostly in developing countries.
By investing in clean water alone, young children around the world can gain more than 413 million days of health!
An estimated 4,100 children under the age of five die each day from diarrhea globally.1 Malnutrition, due to dirty water, inadequate sanitation, and hygiene, is estimated to lead to death in an additional 2,350 children under the age of five each day
Credits:The Water Project and Water.Org For more information, please visit these two websites.
