Why water matters
- One in six people worldwide (1.1 billion people) remain without access to safe water
- 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation
- This causes exposure to disease such as malaria, cholera, dysentery and typhoid
- Over 2.2 million children die every year of water-related diseases
- Water ‘poverty’ affects most poor people, but women are often the worst affected
- Women and girls in some regions spend as many as seven hours a day trekking for water that often isn't fit to drink
- At any given time, close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering from a health problem caused by lack of access to clean water and sanitation.
- When a community gains access to clean water, its child mortality rate drops by half.
By sponsoring a child, you can help a whole community gain access to clean, safe water and good sanitation.
