The Crisis
Courtesy: Fairaction Nigeria Location: Etapa Community, Araromi Ekiti State, Nigeria
The global water crisis
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785 million people lack access to basic drinking water, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water. [1]
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In the least developed countries, 22% of healthcare facilities have no water service, 21% have no sanitation service, and 22% have no waste management service. [2]
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene-related diseases kill nearly 1 million people annually. [2]
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Globally, at least 1.7 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faces. [1]
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A child dies every 90 seconds from a water-related disease. [1]
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159 million people still use surface water, and two-thirds live in sub-Saharan Africa. [2]
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Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 485,000 diarrhea deaths each year. [1]
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443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases, of which 272 million are lost due to diarrhea alone. [8]
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The water crisis is the number one global risk based on its impact on society (as a measure of devastation), as announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2018. [3]
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By 2025, half of the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. [1]
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Globally, 1/3 of all schools lack safe water and adequate sanitation access. [2]
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Water-related diseases affect more than 1.5 billion people every year. [2]
The Economic Importance of Clean Water
$260 billion is lost generally each year due to a lack of safe water and sanitation. [4]
Time spent gathering water around the world translates to $24 billion in lost economic benefits each year. [4]
Access to credit plays a significant role in triggering household sanitation investments, increasing health, and providing families the dignity of a toilet. [6]
Universal access to safe water and sanitation would result in $32 billion in economic benefits each year from reductions in healthcare costs and increased productivity due to reduced illnesses. [4]
Annual aid for water and sanitation amounts to only $8 billion–far short of the $1 trillion needed to solve this crisis and maintain its long trims. [4,5]
For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a $4.3 return in the loan of reduced healthcare costs for individuals and society around the world. [7]
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