Quick hitting facts
- Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease.
- 890 million people lack access to safe water.
- 2.5 billion people don’t have a toilet.
- $25 brings one person clean water for life.
- Over 200 million hours of labor each day are consumed each day to collect water.
- The majority of the world’s illness is caused by fecal matter.
- More people on earth have cell phones than toilets.
Source:
http://water.org/2010/10/blog-action-day/
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