• Water, sanitation and hygiene has the potential to prevent at least 9.1% of the global disease burden and 6.3% of all deaths ¹.
• Worldwide, 884 million people do not have access to an improved water source ^{* 2}. Many more obtain their drinking water from improved, but microbiologically unsafe, sources.
• An estimated 2.5 billion people — half of the developing world — lack access to adequate sanitation (more than 35% of the world’s population) ², ³.
• According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, improved sanitation could save the lives of 1.5 million children per year who would otherwise succumb to diarrheal diseases ².
• The impact of clean water technologies on public health in the U.S is estimated to have had a rate of return of 23 to 1 for investments in water filtration and chlorination during the first half of the 20th century ⁴.
• Water and sanitation interventions are cost effective across all world regions. These interventions were demonstrated to produce economic benefits ranging from US$ 5 to US$ 46 per US$ 1 invested ⁵.
• Worldwide, 149 countries and territories are affected by at least one neglected tropical disease (NTD) ⁶.

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