768 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in ten of the world's population.
(WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report 2013 update)

Around 700,000 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation - that's almost 2,000 children a day.
(Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG), 2012 and Unicef Child Mortality Report, 2012)

Developing countries need to spend up to US$58 billion more each year to meet the Millennium Development Goal targets on water and sanitation.
(WHO 2008, Gleick P H et al, 2009)

Diarrhoea is the third biggest killer of children under five years old in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) 2012)

Diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
(Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) 2012)

For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, an average of $4 is returned in increased productivity.
(Hutton, Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage, WHO, Geneva, 2012: page 4)