Health

The Health of the People are at stake

Why should we even care? -_-
This is an obvious question. Water makes up most of our bodies. It has no odor taste or smell, but it is the most important resource to us. But unfortunately, the earth's drinkable water is only 3% of the world's water. Say you take all the earth's water and pour it into a bucket. The amount of water that a spoon could hold is the percentage of drinkable freshwater in the world.


 * 884 million people, lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
 * Each year, 3.575 million people die from water-related disease.
 * 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all.
 * Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
 * Millions of women and children spend several hours a day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources.
 * At any given time, half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.