WaterAid is an international charity dedicated to helping people escape the stranglehold of poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation.
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WaterAid and its partners use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people.
We also seek to influence policy at national and international levels.
The Facts:
1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe water, this is roughly one sixth of the world's population
2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, this is roughly two-fifths of the world's population
A child dies every 15 seconds from water-related diseases. This amounts to nearly 6000 deaths, or the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing, every day
WaterAid projects providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education cost just £15 per head
When combined water, sanitation and hygiene reduce the number of deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases by an average of 65%
Wateraid key services:
solutions to for safe water, effective sanitation, hygiene education, International aid
People around the world suffer on a daily basis because they don’t have access to safe water and sanitation.
WaterAid's position and research findings on key issues affecting water and sanitation provision.
This gravity flow scheme reaches 1256 people in Tigray, Ethiopia.
