Over 4,900 children every day from preventable water-related diseases.

These programmes aim to reduce the risk of water-related diseases and increase the earning potential of households by saving time otherwise spent fetching water.

On average, a child dies every 20 seconds to a water-related disease.

Lack of safe water leads to an estimated 250 million cases of water-related diseases a year and 5 million to 10 million deaths.

This means our people can afford to take safe clean water and avoid water-related diseases.

One of the reasons that water-related diseases are still occurring because water supplies can be contacted by contaminated surface water.

Scabies is classified by the World Health Organization as a water-related disease.

Viruses are a major cause of human waterborne and water-related diseases.

Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease; 443 million school days and more than 40 billion working hours are lost to water collection annually.

Currently 2.2 billion people die from water-related diseases each year, a figure that is unacceptable.