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!
- 66% of people live off less than $2 a day while 33% live off less than $1 a day!
-The water sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns!
-People living in informal settlements often pay up to 5-10 times more per litre of water than wealthy people living int he same city!
-780 million people lack access to an improved water source
-Approximately on in 9 people!