The average North American uses 400 liters of water every day. Average person in the developing world uses 10 liters every day.
1/2 of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water borne diseases.
American’s spent over $15 billion each year on bottled water. That’s an average of 167 plastic water bottles per person each year.
As little as $10 can provide a person with a lifetime supply of clean water.
For every $1 dollar invested in water sanitation, $8 dollars is returned.
443 million school days a year are missed because of water related illness around the world.
97.5% of the earth’s water is saltwater. If the world’s water fit into a bucket, only one teaspoonful would be drinkable.
1.4 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water. This amounts to around 4,000 deaths a day or one every 20 seconds.
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