Water: a Health Issue
Across much of the developing world, unclean water is an immeasurably greater threat than violent conflict. At any given time, close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering from health problems caused by unsafe water.
One-third of all deaths in developing nations are children under the age of five, compared to less than 1% in developed nations. The leading cause? The 5 billion cases of diarrhea suffered by children in underprivileged countries. Some 1.8 million of these children die each year as a direct result of chronic diarrhea—that's 4,900 every day.
