Global

Water, sanitation, and hygiene has the potential to prevent at least 9.1% of the global disease burden and 6.3% of all deaths.

On an average 250 million people worldwide become suseptable to diseases related to water pollution.

Water pollution is the major cause of various diseases like cholera and typhoid.

At any given time, nearly half of the people in the developing world are suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with dirty water. This leads to inadequate sanitation such as diarrhea, guinea worm, trachoma,and schistosomiasis.

443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related illnessness.

Across the globe, 780 million people do not have access to improved water sources, meaning that they do not have access to modern plumbing and sanitation.

More than 3,000 children die every day globally due to consumption of contaminated drinking water.