Millions lack safe water

- 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/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

Collected by Nhu-Vu SAPUWA