Clean Water
- At present, more than one billion people have to travel a significant
distance from their homes in order to collect clean water. (UNESCO-Nestle
Panel on Water)
- 2.4 billion people live without access to basic sanitation (UNESCO-Nestle
Panel on Water)
- As a direct result, 3,800 children die everyday from waterborne
diseases (“fast facts: the faces of poverty”)
- Growing populations and higher standards of living, combined with
effects of climate change, mean more than a billion people in Asia
will likely to be short of fresh water by 2015 (Agence France Presse,
30 April, based on findings from the IPCC report)
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