A child born in the developed world consumes thirty to fifty times as much water resources as one in the developing world.

• Although water is the most widely occurring substance on earth, only 2.53 percent is fresh water while the remainder is salt water. Some two thirds of this freshwater is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow cover. (UNESCO report)
• A child born in the developed world consumes thirty to fifty times as much water resources as one in the developing world. (UNESCO report)
• One billion people lack access to improved water supply (UNESCO report)
• 40 % of the world’s inhabitants have isufficient fresh water for minimal hygiene. (Wikipedia Encyclopedia).
• 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation (UNESCO report)
• In 2000, the estimated mortality rate due to water sanitation hygiene-associated diarrhoeas and some other water/sanitationassociated diseases (schistosomiasis, trachoma, intestinal infections) was 2,213,000. Close to 90% of these were children under five. (UNESCO report)
• Disinfection of water with chlorine tablets at the point of use and safe storage, combined with limited hygiene education, is the biggest health benefit at the lowest incremental cost; (UNESCO report)
• Worldwide, of the creatures associated with inland waters, 24 percent of mammals and 12 percent of birds are threatened, as are a third of the 10 percent of fish species studied in detail so far. (UNESCO report)
• The World Bank has predicted that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population will run short of fresh drinking water.
• Fortune magazine has dubbed water “the oil of the 21st century.”