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Top 8 global water crisis facts

1two out of five people or three bil lion people around t he world lack basic handwashing facilties at home: 1.6 billion have limited facilities lack ing soap or water, and 1.4 billion have no facility at all. (WHO/UNICEF 2019) 1

2Nearly three quarters of the population of Least Developed Countries lack handwashing facilities with soap and water. (WHO/UNICEF 2019) 2

3Nearly 900 million children worldwide lack a basic hygiene s e r v ic e at t h e i r s c h o o l . (WHO/UNICEF 2018) 3

4Some 297,000 children – more than 800 every day – under f i ve d i e a n nu a l l y f r o m diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water. (WHO 2019) 4

5Children younger than age five in countries experiencing p r o t r a c t e d c o n f l i c t a r e twenty times more likely to die from causes linked to unsafe water and sanitation than from direct violence. (UNICEF, 2019) 5

6One 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

7Hygiene promotion is the most cost effective health intervention. (World Bank 2016) 7

8Un iversa l access to sa fe drinking water and adequate sanitation and hygiene would reduce the global disease burden by 10%. (WHO 2012) 8

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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/