It's hard to believe, but in China, India and Nigeria, millions of children every day can not drink clean water. Globally, nearly 800 million people have no regular access to drinking water.
A glass of clean water every few days or even once a week? This is what happens in the most densely populated countries in the world where children are forced to drink contaminated water, often with puddles, the risk of infection, often fatal diseases.
According to the report of UNICEF as much as 90 percent of child deaths due to diarrhea is the result of drinking dirty water. Educational and construction of wastewater treatment plants yielding promising results, because over the decades has managed to reduce the number of children dying from 1.2 million to 760,000 per year.
It is still far too much and further action is needed to improve water quality and increase availability. The numbers speak for themselves, as many as 90 children die every day due to lack of access to clean water, associated with the lack of hygiene and desires.
The scale of the phenomenon scares us and at the same time makes us less sensitive to it. We should work for the poor, that everyone has an equal chance of slaking thirst every day.