Every 15 seconds a child dies from a water-borne disease.
Millions of women and children in developing countries around the world spend several hours per day collecting water from contaminated rivers, lakes and open wells.
People can’t live without water, but too many of them will die from it.
Approximately 1.8 million people die every year from diarrheal diseases including cholera as a result of drinking contaminated water.
Approximately 4900 people die each day.
Ninety percent of those are children under age five, mostly in developing countries.
For children under the age of five, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death.
According to the World Health Organization, 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water—that’s approximately one in six people on earth.
Furthermore, less than 1% of the world’s fresh water is readily accessible for human use.
