Water Facts

GOT WATER?

 

YES, Water IS Food Storage!

The average person uses 50 gallons of Water per Day! 

 

The average person uses:  

· Toilet - 19 gallons per day
· Bathing & hygiene - 15 gallons per day
· Laundry - eight gallons per day
· Kitchen - seven gallons per day
· Housekeeping - one gallon per day

 

 

 Here are a few more water facts:

 

       

Every 21 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness

 

 

 More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.

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Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.

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Of the 60 million people added to the world's towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.

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780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.

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"[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns."

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An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.

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Over 2.5X more people lack water than live in the United States.

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More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.

Do YOU have sufficient water

AND

 a way to filter or sanitize it if necessary?