World Water Day: 22nd March 2015

22nd March 2015 is World Water Day, to help raise awareness of Real Water Issues on World Water Day, shocking hard facts about water Scarcity you must know:

• Almost 800 million people lack access to clean safe water every day.
• Almost 3 ½ million people die every year because of water and sanitation and hygiene-related causes, and almost all of them (99%) are in the developing world.
• Every 21 seconds, another child dies from a water-related illness
• More than 1 billion people still practice open defecation every day. In fact, more people have a mobile phone than a toilet
• The average person, taking a 5 minute shower, uses more water than an average person in the slums of a developing country does in a whole day
• Household leaks can waste more than 1 trillion gallons annually nationwide. That’s equal to the annual household water use of more than 11 million homes
• Two-thirds of the world’s population is projected to face water scarcity by 2025, according to the United Nations