Let’s start this off with some facts.
- 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people.
- 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
- An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
- Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
- Diarrhea remains in the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
- Diarrhea is more prevalent in the developing world due, in large part, to the lack of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as poorer overall health and nutritional status.
- Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time.
The above list is taken from a handful of facts listed on water.org
This is heartbreaking. But my research didn’t end at just glancing at provided material given to me from blogactionday.org. Did you know that 17 million barrels of oil are used to make all of the water bottles consumed in the US each year, and of those bottles made, only 16% will be recycled.
Let’s get this straight.
