Water and Children

Water-related diseases and poor sanitation kills children like these every 15 seconds in developing countries.

Children are by far the most effected group and bear the brunt of the global water crisis. Over 5,000 children die each day from poor water and sanitation. That's over 2 million deaths per year. These children live in developing countries around the world. Water-related diseases kill more children each year than AIDS, Malaria and TB combined.

Worldwide access to clean, safe drinking water is the second largest killer of children under five according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. More children have died from severe diarrhea, a product of contaminated water and poor sanitation, than all the people killed through armed conflicts since World War II.

Access to clean, safe water and sanitation have been shown to reduce infant and child death rates by 20-30%.