The Issues

There’s a global crisis affecting 2.5 billion people, and it’s killing more children than malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB combined – the lack of access to clean water and basic sanitation.

These two basic human rights are being refused to people across the world and it’s leading to horrific consequences.

• 4000 children under the age of five dying every day from preventable water related illnesses such as diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera and dysentery.
• Over half of hospital beds in developing countries are taken by those suffering with diarrhoeal illnesses, heavily overburdening fragile health systems.
• The UN estimates that half of girls who stop attending primary school in Africa do so because of the lack of safe and private toilets.

But we know how to tackle this crisis – we simply need global governments to commit to taking action to provide the world’s poorest with access to both clean water and safe sanitation.