Water Fun Facts

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1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to

safe water, this is roughly one sixth of the world's population.

2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to

adequate sanitation, this is roughly two fifths of the world's population.

1.8 million children die every year as a result of

diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation, the second biggest killer after respitory infections.

WaterAid projects providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education cost just £15 per head. (WaterAid) Water and sanitation infrastructure helps people take

the first essential step out of the cycle of poverty

and disease. In the UK the expansion of sanitation

infrastructure in the 1880s contributed to a 15 year increase in life expectancy in the following four decades.

Water Fun Facts Water-related diseases

• • • • At any given time, almost half the population of the developing world is suffering from one or more of the main diseases associated with inadequate provision of water and sanitation.

Around 90% of incidences of water-related diseases are due to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in developing countries. (WHO) Intestinal worms infect about 10% of the population of the developing world. Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anaemia and stunted growth. (WHO) One gram of human faeces can contain 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,000 bacteria, 1000 parasite cysts, 100 parasite eggs. (UNICEF)

Education and livelihoods

• • 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases.

40 billion working hours (26% of households’ time) are spent carrying water each year in Africa.

Water Fun Facts Water, sanitation and the Millennium Development Goals

• • • An extra US$10 billion each year is needed to reach the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe water and sanitation - about half of what rich countries spend on mineral water.

To reach the water target will require the provision of services to an additional 300,000 people a day over the next decade, requiring current efforts to be stepped up by almost one third.

To reach the sanitation target means providing services to an additional 450,000 people a day until 2015. This calls for almost a doubling of the current efforts. On current trends, the world will miss the sanitation target by more than half a billion people.

Financing the sector

• • • In real terms, aid levels for water and sanitation are lower than in 1997, a marked contrast to education or health, where aid commitments doubled over the same period.

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) reported average water spending of around $30m in 2005/06 - less than 1% of its bilateral aid budget. (DFID) India spends eight times more on military budgets than on water and sanitation. Pakistan spends 47 times more. Diarrhoea claims some 450,000 lives every year in India - more than in any other country - and 118,000 in Pakistan.

June 22, 1969 control activities resulting in the Agreement , and the creation of the federal and state Environmental Protection Agency . Cuyahoga River Fire (Cleveland Ohio into Lake Erie) sparked pollution Clean Water Act , Great Lakes Water Quality

IIASA Water Activities’ Cities and Flows Project

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