IMPORTANCE

• We take water for granted
• Education is lost to sickness
• Lack of quantity and quality of water
• Access to clean water improves: education, hunger, health, and poverty
• 85% of population lives in dry areas
• 783,000,000 people do not have access
• Almost 2,500,000,000 do not have access to etiquette sanitation
• 6-8 MILLION people die annually from consequences of disasters and water related diseases
• There are 2 types of water scarcity:
  • Physical: not enough water to meet standards for the human body
  • Economic: institutional and financial capital limits access to water, although it is available