WATERSHED.
The FACTS
- Over 1 billion people worldwide live without access to safe drinking water.
- By 2025 more than 3 billion people could be affected by serious water shortages.
- 40% of the world lives without adequate sanitation.
- 4 out of 10 people don't have access to a basic toilet.
- Only 15% of the world's population have the luxury of water on tap.
 The average person in the UK uses 160 litres of water every day; the average person in the developing world uses just 10 litres.- In some places, people have to walk up to 10 miles to collect water.
- In many countries, fetching water can take up to five hours a day.
- The weight of water women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is the equivalent of your airport luggage allowance.
- Every 15 seconds, a child dies from diseases caused by lack of water.
- Unsafe drinking water and poor living conditions kill 4000 children everyday.
- Half of all hospital beds in the world are filled with people suffering from water-related diseases such as Malaria, Diarrhoea and Trachoma.
In the UK
- In the South East of the UK the average person uses 160 litres of water every day; around 50% more water everyday than 25 years ago.
- We buy 1.6 billion litres of bottled water a year even though our tap water is safe and clean.
- Since 2004, the UK average rainfall has been down by almost 30%, leaving reservoirs and underground stores at dangerously low levels.
- There hasn't been enough rain. The south of England is currently experiencing the driest period since 1933, with low rainfall over the last two winters. *
* Source: www.beatthedrought.com/aboutTheDrought/whyIsTheSituationSoSerious.asp
   
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