Facts

So far we have been researching where in the world people are without clean water and organizations that help people without it.

We came across some facts such as:

- 1% of the world's freshwater is easily accessible.
- 29% of the world's freshwater is underground.
- 70% of the world's freshwater is in ice form or snow cover on mountains.
-80% of global diseases are water-borne from contaminated water.
-There are aquifers 100-300 ft. in the ground to reach clean water. Then organizations help the community get the water by building wells.
- You can boil your water, if needed to clean it.
- 1.5 gallons of water are needed to produce one plastic bottle of water.
-An average toilet flush uses more water than most people in Sub-Saharan Africa will use all day.

How it affects the world:

-3.5 million deaths per year are from water-related diseases.
-Every 20 seconds a child dies from water-related diseases.
-About 1 billion people are without clean water that's safe to drink.
- 4,100 children die everyday from diseases caused by contaminated water.
- Women in countries without access to clean water have to walk up to on average 3.75 miles to collect water that isn't even safe to drink.
              - This makes the women fall into the poverty cycle, because they spend up to 8 hours collecting the water instead of going to school and getting and education. Therefore harder for them to make money.
-The jerry cans that they carry can weigh up to 44lbs.

These are just a few facts we found while researching the water crisis. We have realized that a lot of things we do in everyday life affects the water crisis, such as flushing the toilet or using a plastic water bottle.