why water?

current projects

• ​​3.41 million people die from water, sanitation and hygiene-related causes each year.
   
• ​​Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness.​​

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• Half of the hospital beds in the world are occupied by patients suffering from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
• Every 21 seconds, a child dies  from diarrhea. This amounts to approximately 4,100   deaths a day.

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References:
1. World Health Organization. (2008). Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health.
2. Estimated with data from The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/World Health Organization (WHO). (2009). Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done.
3. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). (2006). Human Development Report 2006, Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis.