884,000,000 live without access to safe water. That is the equivalent of the whole of Britain being without water 14 times over.
1.4 million children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to 160 infant school classrooms
The world is made up of 70% water but only 1% of that is safe drinking water. If the worlds water was poured into a bucket only a teaspoon would be drinkable.
The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking.
> 10 litres is the equivalent of 17 pints
> around 8-13 litres are used with a single toilet flush, the average household flushes 16 times a day.
> 80 litres are used per shower, that’s 320 litres per average household.
The average person carries 20kg on their head for 6km. That’s the equivalent of carrying a baby elephant on your head up and down a football pitch 6 times.
OR 8 bags of groceries on your head from Stockport to Manchester.
OR the average UK airport luggage allowance on your head the around the perimeter of Manchester airport twice.
MDG (Millennium Development Goals) aims to meet the annual cost of water and sanitation by 2015. That cost is £8 billion.
Europeans spend about £6 billion on ice cream every year.
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