According to UN statistics, 783 million people worldwide lack access to the 5-13 gallons of clean water than each person needs daily for drinking, sanitation and cooking purposes. It is thought that 3.5 million of those people will die every year due to the lack of adequate clean water. Improving global access to clean water can reduce deaths from diarrhea, especially among children, improve access to nutritious foods and make it easier for children, particularly girls, to go to school.

Key Takeaways:

• The resource called water is very valuable to humans and crucial to life because wars are fought due to nations wanting to have access to water.
• One of the advantages of clean water is in sanitation and human health where it can reduce death and sickness by 21 percent.
• When water is clean and safe, it increases the likelihood that people will get healthier food and food can be grown to feed people.

“As the world population continues to grow and access to clean water becomes increasingly difficult, we examined the power of clean water and why it’s important.”

Read more: https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/blog/10-ways-clean-water-can-improve-the-world/