John Kliewer's List: Water Crisis

• A girl in Africa
• miles before school to fetch water from a distant well. A teenage boy in
• teenage boy in China
• slum dwellers in Angola draw drinking water from the local river where their sewage is dumped
• every day 4,400 children under the age of 5 die around the world, having fallen sick because of unclean water and sanitation
• ne in every six human beings has no access to clean water within a kilometer of their homes. Half of all people in developing countries have no access to proper sanitation.
• Today, 800 million people live under a threshold of “water stress.”
• Farming uses up to 70 times more water than is used for cooking and washing.
• Up to 40 percent of water is lost to water leakages in pipes and canals, one of the main causes of which is illegal tapping.
• Global warming is another threat.
• declining rainfall in some regions, glacial melt in others, and rising sea levels. Other natural disasters occur with more sudden intensity.

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• 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people
• Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.