World Water Day

World Water Day 2016: 40 photos to make you think twice about wasting this precious resource

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  By David Sim
  March 20, 2016 08:00 GMT
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Access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services is vital to human health. However, about 650 million people, or 10% of the world's population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

People gather to fetch water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of GujaratReuters

Dirty water and poor sanitation can cause severe diseases in children, killing 900 under-fives every day across the world, according to United Nations estimates – or one child every two minutes. Among newborn babies, the World Health Organisation says infections caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment cause one death every minute somewhere in the world.

Slum dwellers collect drinking water from a submerged hand-pump after heavy rains in the northern Indian city of AllahabadReuters

A girl collects drinking water from the Dala river outside Yangon, MyanmarReuters

World Water Day 2016: 40 photos to make you think twice about wasting this precious resource

• 

  By David Sim
  March 20, 2016 08:00 GMT
• 6,597   

Access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services is vital to human health. However, about 650 million people, or 10% of the world's population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

People gather to fetch water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of GujaratReuters

Dirty water and poor sanitation can cause severe diseases in children, killing 900 under-fives every day across the world, according to United Nations estimates – or one child every two minutes. Among newborn babies, the World Health Organisation says infections caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment cause one death every minute somewhere in the world.

Slum dwellers collect drinking water from a submerged hand-pump after heavy rains in the northern Indian city of AllahabadReuters

A girl collects drinking water from the Dala river outside Yangon, MyanmarReuters

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