790 million people live without clean water everyday that's 11% of the Earth's population. In addition, 1.8 billion people live without proper sanitation that's 25% of the Earth's population. 2,200 children under the age of 5 die everyday from diarrhel diseases due to unsanitary water that's 803,000 kids every year. All over what? clean water. Something we take for granted. Americans alone wastes 1 trillion gallons of water every year. Unsafe water can contain developmental neurotoxins which effects brain devolpment in young children. This causes countries without clean water to have a 57% increase in chldren with mental retardation and the national averge IQ becomes lower compared to countries with a clean water supply. Industrial waste is also dumped into water that is later used by communities. All this unsanitary water has caused 41 million cases of trachoma each year yet, they can easily be prevented by acess to clean water and soap. Many NTDs (neglected tropical diseases) are commonly found in unsafe drinking water which can endanger those drinking or using it. GWDs are a very rare parastic infections can be very painful. Worms that can be up to 1 meter wrong emerge from the skin through blisters. In 2015 22 cases of this disease where reported. GWDs are caused by the intake of food or water containing the eggs of the worms.
