Water and Sanitation

Water Facts

• Over 1 billion people worldwide live without access to safe drinking water.
• By 2025 more than 3 billion people could be affected by serious water shortages.
• 40% of the world lives without adequate sanitation.
• 4 out of 10 people don't have access to a basic toilet.
• Only 15% of the world's population have the luxury of water on tap.
• The average person in the Australia uses 282 litres of water every day; the average person in the developing world uses just 10 litres.
• In some places, people have to walk up to 10 miles to collect water.
• In many countries, fetching water can take up to five hours a day.
• The weight of water women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is the equivalent of your airport luggage allowance.
• Every 15 seconds, a child dies from diseases caused by lack of water.
• Unsafe drinking water and poor living conditions kill 4000 children everyday.
• Half of all hospital beds in the world are filled with people suffering from water-related diseases such as Malaria, Diarrhoea and Trachoma.

If you are interested in raising financial support for water and sanitation projects you can contact us for more information; have a look at the gifts that keep on giving; or look at the exciting work that we are doing raising funds for remote regions of China. You can also view the following short clips: