3RD WORLD WATER PROBLEMS

3RD WORLD FACTS

• 884 million people in the world lack access water supplies
• 3.5 million people die each year because of water-related diseases
• Almost 2 in 3 people who need drinking water survive on only 2$ a day.
• In the developing world women walk an average of over 3.5 miles a day to find fresh water.
• Every 20 seconds a child dies from water-related diseases.

3RD WORLD PROBLEMS

• More than 1/2 of all primary school in developing countries don't have adequate water facilities and nearly 2/3 lack adequate sanitation.
• Clean water is one aspect of improving sustainable food production in order to reduce poverty and hunger.
• Dirty water kills 5,000 children a day and 4,100 of those children are usually under the age of 5 years old.
• Every year about 4 million children under the age of 5 die from just one water-borne disease.

SOLUTIONS

• Solution 1 page2: The Life Straw cleaner bathrooms
• Solution 2 page2: The Life Sack & The Ceramic Water Filter.

SOLUTIONS

• Solution 3 page2: Education on how diseases spread and ways to
• prevent them.
• Solution 4 page2: Keep children awasy from unsafe water supplies.

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