The UN suggests that each person needs 20-50 litres of clean water a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning. More than one in six people worldwide – 894 million – don’t have access to this (World Health Organisation)
3.575 million people die each year from water-related diseases (World Heath Organisation)
Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources (UN)
Almost 1/10th of the global disease burden could be prevented by improving water supply, sanitation, hygiene and management of water resources (UN)
Globally, diarrhoea is the leading cause of illness and death – killing more children every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined – and 88% of diarrhoeal deaths are due to a lack of access to sanitation facilities, together with inadequate availability of water for hygiene and unsafe drinking water (JMP & WHO)
