Life cannot exist without water…

But every day finding useable water is the primary concern of millions of people….

Water scarcity affects every continent…

…and 4 out of every 10 people in the world

On average, women in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles a day

Just to get enough water to last for 24 hours

Lack of sanitation is killer

Every year in Africa, 5-10 times the number of people die from diarrhea than from war

We stop thinking about the water that we use

A five minute shower in an American household will use more water than a person living in a third world country

will use in an entire day

Just $1 can provide clean water for a child in a developing country

for an entire year

That’s less than you spend on buying a single bottle of water…

At any given time…

More than half the worlds poor are ill due to inadequate sanitation, water or hygiene

Millions of people read the New York times every day

It takes 81 gallons to make just one Sunday newspaper

That’s 568 gallons per week for one household to get the news every day

Over 1.5 BILLION people do not have access to clean water

Half the world’s schools do not have adequate sanitation…

…or clean water

It takes around 3,000 gallons to produce just 1 pound of coffee

the average American drinks 3.1 cups of coffee a day

1 lbs of coffee makes 64 cups

That means every 21 days the average coffee drinking uses 3,000 gallons of water

A child dies of water born disease about every 15 seconds…

That’s around 10 children since this powerpoint started….

And by this time tomorrow, 2500 more will be dead

Of the 2.5% of Earths surface that is fresh water, only

0.006% is available in the world

Something must change in the way that we manage our resources

Emma Dietz and Sam Provet