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844 million people still don’t have clean water.

(WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report 2017)

2.3 billion people don't have a decent toilet.

(WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report 2017)

31% of schools don’t have clean water.

(UNICEF, Advancing WASH in Schools Monitoring, 2015)

Every minute a newborn dies from infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment.

(WHO, 2015)

Diarrhoea caused by dirty water and poor toilets kills a child under 5 every 2 minutes.

(WASHWatch.org)

Around the world up to 443 million school days are lost every year because of water-related illnesses.

(Human Development Report, 2006)

Every $1 invested in water and toilets returns an average of $4 in increased productivity.

(WHO, 2012)

The World Bank says promoting good hygiene is one of the most cost effective health interventions.

(Disease Control Priorities, third edition (volume 2), 2016)

If everyone, everywhere had clean water, the number of diarrhoeal deaths would be cut by a third.

(Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2014)