instead, they rely on water contaminated with bacteria, parasites, or toxic pollutants for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
Women and children are most burdened with the chore of collecting water.
Millions of women and children spend hours A day walking long distances to fetch dirty water, carrying the heavy load home on their heads for miles.
This steals time fROm work, education and even playtime.
Areas without clean water have higher infant and child mortality, higher infections amongst new mothers, and much greater incidence of preventable, water-borne diseases.
In addition to health, the Global water crisis affects poverty, education,
gender equity, peace and many other areas of development.
