More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.3
- Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.1
- Of the 60 million people added to the world’s towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.6
- 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.2
- “[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.” 7
- An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.7
- Over 2.5X more people lack water than live in the United States.2
- More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.2,4,5
Source: http://water.org/
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