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 Nearly 1 billion people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. (3)  2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1.2 billion people who have no facilities at all. (3)  million people die each year from water-related disease. (4)  The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns. (1)  An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day. (1)  Diarrhea remains in the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. (5)  Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. (2)

A 2006 United Nations report focuses on issues of governance as the core of the water crisis,  "There is enough water for everyone”  "Water insufficiency is often due to mismanagement, corruption, lack of appropriate institutions, bureaucratic inertia and a shortage of investment in both human capacity and physical infrastructure"

 Population Increases:  As populations grow, industrial, agricultural and individual water demands escalate.  World-wide demand for water is doubling every 21 years  Greater water usage:  Associated with rising standards of living (e.g., diets containing less grain and more meat)  Reflects potentially unsustainable levels of irrigated agriculture  Desertification (in many countries)  Deteriorating water quality:  population increases and salinity caused by industrial farming and over-extraction rises.  About 95 percent of the world's cities still dump raw sewage into their waters

Water Usage Developed vs. Developing Countries The term developed country is used to describe countries that have a high level of development according to some criteria (usually economic). A child born in the developed world uses 30 to 50 times as much water as one in the developing world Advanced economies Emerging and developing economies (not least developed) Emerging and developing economies (least developed ) Classifications by the IMF and the UN

 Constituents in water:  Disease vectors (an insect or any living carrier that transmits an infectious agent)infectious agent  Pathogens (e.g. Giardia and Cryptosporidium)  Dissolved Chemicals  Suspended Solids