| WATER FACTS |
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| Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. |
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| 1.1 billion people (about one sixth of the world) lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. |
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| An estimated 150 Million Woman Days and Rs 10 Billion are lost in India each year in fetching water. |
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| The Paradoxes of Urban Water: |
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- Poor people living in the slums large cities in developing countries often pay 5-10 times more for per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
- Chennai ferries its water from as far away as 200km away, and Bangalore from the Cauvery, 95 km away.
(http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda3_02.jsp)
- A recent study by the International Water Management Institute in six cities (Indore, Nagpur, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Chennai) notes that in the latter three cities the contribution of groundwater in meeting the city’s domestic and municipal water requirements ranges between 72 and 99%.
- Most of these cities also have a thriving tanker water economy (the biggest is in Chennai).Annual revenues from the tanker water economy in these six cities alone are reported to be in the region of Rs 100 crore.
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| Close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits. At any given time, half of the hospital beds in developing countries are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease. |
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| How much water do you use ? |
| National averages:
USA 575 litres per day
Europe 200-300 litres per day
India 140 litres per day
Many African countries: < 50 litres a day
An average room in a five-star hotel in Delhi consumes 1,600 litres of water every day. VIP residences consume over 30,000 litres per day. But 78% of Delhi’s citizens, who live in sub-standard settlements, struggle to collect or buy 30-90 litres per capita per day
(Source: http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda3_04.jsp)
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| Less than one half of a percent of water on earth is available fresh water. The rest is ocean, or frozen in ice caps. |
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