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Let's look at some numbers

• 2.4 billion people - 1 in 3 - lack access to a toilet
• Globally, 1/3 of all schools lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation
• In low and middle-income countries, 1/3 all all healthcare facilities lack a safe water source
• Globally, at least 1.8 billion people use a drinking-water source contaminated with faeces
• 160 million children suffer from stunting and chronic malnutrition linked to water and sanitation
• Contaminated water can transmit diseases such diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio, with an estimated 700,000 diarrhoeal deaths each year

Contact with human faeces kills about 1.4 million children each year (more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined) - so 1 child in the time you have read this page.

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Percent of Population with access to improv​ed sanitation (2015) ^a

References:
[1] water.org
[2] WHO Drinking-water fact-sheet
[3] Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
[4] Freshwater Action Network
[a] World Data Bank