AIDS, breast cancer, and diabetes are serious health threats to women throughout the world. Funds are raised and research is done to taper off these major killers. However, there is one threat that causes more deaths than breast cancer, AIDS, or diabetes: dirty water.

Researchers say that the diseases spread through dirty water and bad sanitation are the fifth biggest killer of women worldwide, just shy behind heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to WaterAid, nearly 800,000 women needlessly die due lack of clean water and safe toilets. In fact, the water issue effects the mortality of new mothers and newborns since both are exposed to filthy water at a weakened state. For a full article about this troubling issue, please click here:: Dirty water kills more women than AIDS and breast cancer: study