Water & Sanitation Presentation

Diseases from water and sanitation cause more deaths world wide than guns do from war.

-Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related disease

-Children in poor countries on average carry 1000 parasitic worms in their bodies

-An American taking a five minute shower uses more water than a person in a developing country uses all day

- A child born in the US or Europe is 520 times less likely to die from a diarrheal diseases, which kill about 1.5 million children every year.

-Women, called the water haulers of the world, walk on average 6km a day and carry 20L of water. This affects girls the most, because they are less likely to be able to have free time to spend in order to go to school.

For more facts about water visit:

http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_31600.html