Global Water Crisis

Much of the world does NOT have access to clean drinking water. In fact, consider the following:

  • In the developing world, almost 800 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea… contracted from unclean water. That’s 289,000 children every year.
  • In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs… collecting water for domestic use.
  • 3.3 Million people die from water related illnesses each year.
  • Up to 20 million people die from hunger and starvation each year, largely due to lack of clean drinking water.

  • In the last decade, more people have died every year from hunger than in any single year of World War II.
  • 844 million people lack access to a purified water source or about 1 in 9 people in the world.