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Global Water Crisis

Water Crisis Globally

663 million people currently drink dirty water with more than 840,000 estimated to die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hand hygiene including 360,000 children under the age of 5. (1)

844million

people don’t have clean water

2.3billion

people don't have a decent toilet

31%

of schools do not have clean water

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report 2017

Diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence including war. charity: water

Diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor toilets kills a child under 5 every 2 minutes. WASHWatch.org

Throughout the world, up to 443 million school days are lost every year due to water-related illnesses. Human Development Report, 2006

Every minute a newborn dies from an infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment. WHO, 2015

Diarrhea is the third leading cause of child death. Water.org

If everyone, everywhere had clean water, the number if diarrheal deaths would be cut by a third. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2014

$260000000000

lost globally each year due to lack of basic water and sanitation. Water.org