WATER CRISIS

• More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.

 

• 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.

 

• More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.

 

• Lack of community envovlement causes 50 % of water projects to fail.

 

• People living in slums often pay 5-10 more times on a liter of water than people living in wealthier settlements.

 

• An estimated 200 million hours are spent each day globally collecting water

                                                          All Information came from UNICEF and WHO