Water Crisis

 

Around the world people have a lack of clean water. This causes many disease's like Cholera, Hepatitis A, Malaria, Diarrhea, Typhoid, and Dengue.

 

Here are 10 facts about the water crisis:

 

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

 

2. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness.

3. 800 million people have no access to safe drinking water.

4. The world's poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the U.S.

5. Women spend 200 million hours a day collecting water.

6. 780 million people – 1 in every 9 – don’t have access to clean water.

7. Dirty water kills 3.4 million people every year.

8. Less than one percent of all the water on Earth is freshwater available for human consumption.

9. The average American uses 176 gallons of water per day compared to 5 gallons of water the average African family uses each day.

10. Worldwide, approximately 425 million children under 18 do not have safe water.

 

Here is a picture of the microbes of Cholera.

 

 

Here are some really good websites that I used for some of my facts:

http://www.waterinfo.org/resources/water-facts
http://www.compassion.com/poverty/water.htm