water.org

We envision the day when everyone can take a safe drink of water.

WHY WATER?:

- One in eight people don't have access to clean water (nearly one billion people)

- Twice as many don't have a toilets (2.5 billion)

- The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

- Nearly all the victims are children (84% - most are under 5 years old)

- A child dies every 20 seconds from a (preventable!) water-related disease

- Women in developing countries walk an average of 3.7 miles a day for water.

THE GOOD NEWS:

It doesn't have to be this way. We're not waiting on a magic cure - the solutions are simple, inexpensive, and available - today!

water.org