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Facts on Water

Facts on Water. By Shannon Iveagh. More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.

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Facts on Water

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  1. Facts on Water By Shannon Iveagh

  2. More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.

  3. Of the 60 million people added to the world's towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.

  4. 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.

  5. An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.

  6. Every 20 seconds a child dies as a result of poor sanitation.

  7. Nearly half the households in low HDI countries, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, spend 30 minutes per day collecting water, mostly women do this. A study in the 1990s found that if all households in the Mbale district of Eastern Uganda had secure access to water and fuel—living 400 metres or less from potable water and no more than 30 minutes from a fuel wood source—they would gain more than 900 hours a year.

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