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Top 8 global water crisis facts 1 3 5 7 8 4 2 6 two out of five people or three bi l l ion people around t he world lack basic handwashing facilties at home: 1.6 billion have lim ited facilities lack ing soap or water, and 1.4 billion have no facility at all. (WHO/UNICEF 2019)1 Nearly three quarters of the population of Least Developed Countries lack handwashing facilities with soap and water. (WHO/UNICEF 2019)2
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Nearly 900 million children worldwide lack a basic hygiene s e r v i c e at t h e i r s c h o o l . (WHO/UNICEF 2018)3
Some 297,000 children – more than 800 every day – under f i ve d i e a n n u a l l y f r o m diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water. (WHO 2019)4
Children younger than age five in countries experiencing protracted con f lict are twenty times more likely to die from causes linked to unsafe water and sanitation than from direct violence. (UNICEF, 2019)5
One million deaths each year are associated with unclean births. Infections account for 26% of neonatal deaths and 11% of maternal mortality. (WHO/UNICEF 2019)6
Hyg iene promotion is the most cost effective health intervention. (World Bank 2016)7
Un ivers a l acces s to sa fe drinking water and adequate sanitation and hygiene would reduce the global disease burden by 10%. (WHO 2012)8 WRITTEN BY: HTTPS://WWW.UNWATER.ORG/ WATER-FACTS/HANDHYGIENE/
Citation: 1. https://washdata.org/ 2. https://washdata.org/ 3. https://washdata.org/ 4. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water 5. https://www.unicef.org/media/62371/file/Convention-rightschild-at-crossroads-2019.pdf 6. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water 7. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/23833/9781464803482.pdf?sequence=3 8. https://www.who.int/gho/phe/water_sanitation/burden/en/
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