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Nearly one billion people do not have access to sufficient amounts of safe water.
The past century has seen the world’s population triple, while water consumption has increased sevenfold.
More than one out of six people in the world’s population do not have access to safe drinking water.
Contaminated water causes the death of more than 9,000 people each day.
Every twenty seconds, a child dies from a disease caused by drinking contaminated water.
A person needs about 50 litres of safe water per day to meet their basic needs.
It takes ten litres of water to make a sheet of paper.
A kilogram of meat requires five to twenty times more water than is used to produce a kilogram of cereal.
Bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more than tap water.