NOT SO FUN FACTS

• People spend entire days searching for water
• Water scarcity is growing
• Top ten places in need of water:
  1. Afghanistan: only 13% has access to clean water
  2. Ethiopia: only 11% have access to safe water; for every 1 person who has safe water, 77 people do not
  3. Chad: water and food crisis; huge drought
  4. Cambodia: 84% do not have access to safe/clean water
  5. Laos: in need of water
  6. Haiti: 1 in 5 people access stationary toilets; half the people in Haiti have access to clean water
  7. Ghana: water born diseases are common, ex: diarrhea, Guinea worm
  8. India: 21% of communicable diseases are related to unsafe water
  9. Rwanda: water systems are hard to install based on topography; lack of clean water; faces many diseases; 1 in 5 child mortality rate
  10. Bangladesh: hundreds of thousands of deaths of children each year
• Russia, USA, Canada, and China are the countries with the most water in the world
• Top 5 countries with least amount of fresh water:
  1. Kuwait/Bahamas, 0.02 km3/year- total renewable water sources, 2.156/17.93 km3/year- average precipitation
  2. Saint Kitts and Nevis, 0.024 km3/year- total renewable water sources, 0.371 km3/year- average precipitation
  3. Maldives, 0.03 km3/year- total renewable water sources, 0.5916 km3/year- average precipitation
  4. Malta, 0.0505 km3/year- total renewable water sources, 0.1792 km3/year- average precipitation
  5. Qatar, 0.058 km3/year- total renewable water sources, 0.8591 km3/year- average precipitation