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DID YOU KNOW?
 

1. 210,000 children die each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year due to poverty.

2. Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.

3. Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day.

4. More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.

5. 8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day. The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day.)

 

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