Facts About the Water and Sanitation Crises

• 3,500,000 people die each year from water related diseases.
  
• A child dies every 15 seconds from a water related disease.
  
  
• 98% of water related deaths occur in the developing world.

• 84% of water related deaths are children under age 14.

• Over one billion people lack safe water.

• Improved sanitation facilities would reduce diarrhea deaths in children by one third.

• When proper hygiene is added to improved sanitation facilities, diarrhea deaths in children is reduced by two thirds.

• Half the illness in the world is related to hygiene, sanitation, and water supply.

• Lack of sanitation is the cause of the majority of infections worldwide.

• Most Americans use more water in a 5 minute shower than the average person in a slum in the developing world uses in an entire day.

•  The water crisis is inextricably linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.

• 2,500,000,000 people do not have access to improved sanitation.

• 1,200,000,000 people have no sanitation facilities at all.