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Clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene should be a normal part of everyone’s daily life. Without all three, people can’t live dignified, healthy lives. With all three, they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. With clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene, children are born healthier. They get the chance to go to school and grow up to become adults. Women and men get to earn a living. Whole communities start to thrive. It sounds normal and it should be.
663 million live without clean water to drink, that is around 10%of the world’s population.
2.4 billion don’t have access to adequate sanitation.
800 children die every day from diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
