Health crisis and the looming water crisis

“One out of eight people lacks access to clean water… 1.2 billion people cannot drink water without courting disease or death … Dirty water and lack of a toilet and proper hygiene kill 3.3 million people around the world annually, most of them children under the age of five … In fifteen years, 1.8 billion people will live in regions of severe water scarcity …With 83 million more people on earth each year, water demand will keep going up unless we change how we use it ….”

– National Geographic