22nd March 2015 is World Water Day, to help raise awareness of Real Water Issues on World Water Day, shocking hard facts about water Scarcity you must know:
- Almost 800 million people lack access to clean safe water every day.
- Almost 3 ½ million people die every year because of water and sanitation and hygiene-related causes, and almost all of them (99%) are in the developing world.
- Every 21 seconds, another child dies from a water-related illness
- More than 1 billion people still practice open defecation every day. In fact, more people have a mobile phone than a toilet
- The average person, taking a 5 minute shower, uses more water than an average person in the slums of a developing country does in a whole day
- Household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons annually nationwide. That’s equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million homes
- Two-thirds of the world’s population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations