Water Facts

During my research on Water sanitation, I have  found some disturbing, but true facts that many organizations are trying to change, here are 7.

1: More than two billion people don't have access to toilets, that's more than one seventh of the world!

2: Dirty water can give you diseases such as Cholera and gastrointestinal illnesses like diarrhea.

3: About 801,000 kids die of diarrhea each year.

4: From dirty drinking water, you could get Guinea Worm Disease, which is a very painful parasite that infests your leg through blisters.

5: About 10% of the world's disease could prevented if we had cleaner drinking water.

6: In 1998, diarrhea killed about 2.2 million people

7: 80% of all children's diseases are caused by water.

Links:  http://water.org/- Water.org
http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/ - CDC
http://www.who.int/en/ - WHO
http://www.wvi.org/cleanwater - World Vision International