- Nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation. The health and economic impacts are staggering.
- 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people.
- 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
- Diarrhea remains in the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
- Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
- Diarrhea is more prevalent in the developing world due, in large part, to the lack of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as poorer overall health and nutritional status.
- Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.
- In the developing world, 24,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea contracted from unclean water.
- 1.4 million children die as a result of diarrhea each year.
- 88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene.
- 90% of all deaths caused by diarrheal diseases are children under 5 years of age, mostly in developing countries.
The issues of clean water is extremely meaningful to me because I personally feel that each and every individual should have access to clean water. I mean water is a much needed substance that she be digested daily. I choose the topic of clean water because I have had an awful experience with polluted water. When I moved to Carbondale I had no idea that the city was on a no drink order. My daughter who was four at the time loved to drink water, and she would often get some from the faucet. As result from the bacteria my daughter had diarrhea for close to 2 weeks and had to be hospitalized. I was horrified and have been purchasing bottled water since.
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