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By 2050, the world’s population will have grown by an estimated 2 billion people and global water demand could be up to 30% higher than today.

Mar 12, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of World Water Day

The amount of money lost globally each year is 260 billion dollars due to lack of basic water and saitation.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

1 Million people killed by water, sanitation and hygiene-related disease each year.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Access to safe water means improved health for women and girls who no longer have to delay finding a place to go. It means reduced child and maternal mortality rates.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Woman and girls spend up to 6 hours every day collecting water.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

844 Million people lack access to safe water.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

70% of the earth is covered in water. Only 2% of the earths water is fresh. But 1.6% of it is locked in polar ice caps and glaciers.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of SaveTheWater.org

26 percent of Canadians rely on groundwater for domestic use.

Mar 9, 2018 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Environment Water Canada

The amount of safe water could drop by 40 percent in 15 years if people do not change the way they use water.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Universal access to safe water and sanitation would result in $18.5 billion in economic benefits each year from deaths avoided alone, a return of $4 for every dollar spent on safe water access.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Every 90 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Women and children spend 125 million hours collecting fresh water every day. Individual women and children spend as many as six hours collecting fresh water daily.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

More than one-third of people worldwide lack access to a toilet, more than the number of people who have a mobile phone.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Eighty-two percent of people who don’t have access to “improved” water live in rural areas.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

More than 840,000 people die from a water-related disease each year, including diarrhea caused by bad drinking water, hygiene and sanitation.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

The incidence of children suffering from stunting and chronic malnutrition — at least 160 million — is linked to water and sanitation.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

The World Economic Forum in January 2015 ranked the water crisis as the No. 1 global risk based on impact to society (as a measure of devastation).

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

In low- and middle-income countries, a third of all healthcare facilities lack a safe water source.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

Globally, a third of all schools lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation.

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org

1.8 billion people around the world lack access to safe water

Mar 27, 2017 - xpv_admin

Courtesy of Water.org