water facts

·  884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people.

·  3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.

·  The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.

·  Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.

·  An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.

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