- Seven hundred eighty-five million (785,000,000 people) lack basic drinking water access, that’s one in ten people on the planet.
- More than 800 children under age 5 die from diarrhoea due to poor water and sanitation every day.
- 90% of all natural disasters are water-related.
- More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.
- About a quarter (22%) of health facilities in the least-developed countries have no safe water.
- 31% of schools don’t have clean water.
