Water is one of the world’s most precious natural resources. However, 80 countries regularly experience serious water shortages. Children’s tiny bodies are particularly dependent on clean water and susceptible to water related diseases and parasites.
Every 21 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness.
More than 2.7 billion people have inadequate or nonexistent access to proper sanitation.
When a community gains access to clean water, its child mortality rate drops by half.
Every day, nearly 4,000 children die as a result of drinking unsafe water.
Every 22 seconds a child perishes from waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and dysentery.
Six million people are blind as a result of contaminated water and bacteria.
To give water is to give life.
Clean water can cut a community’s child mortality rate in half.
It means food for families whose crops are failing due to drought.
It saves livestock.
It gives parents a powerful way to improve the health, hygiene, and well-being of their children.
(Information taken from World Vision's site.)
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