World Water Day 2008

Video from 2007 Children’s World Water Forum

Today is World Water Day. Here’s some water and sanitation facts:

1.1 billion people lack access to an improved water supply - approximately one in six people on earth
2.6 billion people in the world lack access to improved sanitation
Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use
The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day. The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day.
Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
Every $1 spent on water and sanitation creates on average another $8 in costs averted and productivity gained
Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water live on less $2 a day
Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more for per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
For children under age five, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death.
88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
At any given time, half of the worldâ€™s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

Video from 2007 Children’s World Water Forum

Today is World Water Day. Here’s some water and sanitation facts:

1.1 billion people lack access to an improved water supply - approximately one in six people on earth
2.6 billion people in the world lack access to improved sanitation
Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use
The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day. The average African family uses about 5 gallons of water each day.
Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
Every $1 spent on water and sanitation creates on average another $8 in costs averted and productivity gained
Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water live on less $2 a day
Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more for per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
For children under age five, water-related diseases are the leading cause of death.
88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
At any given time, half of the worldâ€™s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

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