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The UN suggests that each person needs 20-50 litres of safe
freshwater a day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and
cleaning. Source: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
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More than one in six people worldwide - 894 million - don't have
access to this amount of safe freshwater. Source: World Health
Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring
Programme on Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP)
· Globally, diarrhoea is the leading cause of
illness and death, and 88 per cent of diarrhoeal deaths are due to a lack of
access to sanitation facilities, together with inadequate availability of water
for hygiene and unsafe drinking water. Source: JMP
· Today 2.5 billion people, including almost
one billion children, live without even basic sanitation. Every 20 seconds, a
child dies as a result of poor sanitation. That's 1.5 million preventable
deaths each year.
Source: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
Source: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, treating diarrhoea consumes 12 percent of the
health budget. On a typical day, more than half the hospital beds in are
occupied by patients suffering from faecal-related disease. Source: WSSCC
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Washing hands with soap can reduce the risk of diarrhoeal diseases by
up to 47 per cent. Source: WHO
· The first ever
global handwashing day was celebrated on 15 October during the International
Year of Sanitation.
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