DIRTY WATER is dangerous Every year 3,575,000 people die from water related diseases. This is equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every hour. Most of these people are children (2.2 million).
Really dangerous Unclean water and poor sanitation have claimed more lives over the past 100 years than any other cause. The water-crisis claims more lives through disease than any war through guns. Safe drinking water is a luxury 844 million people lack access to safe drinking water. This is more than the combined populations of the United States, Brazil, Japan, Germany, France and Italy.
DIRTY WATER is making many people sick At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
But not all is bad The good news is that it is possible to do something about it. READ MORE HERE!
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