For farmers this is devastating. For us city-slickers it depresses us to watch our garden’s wilt away. We don’t like our rushed, short showers… We anxiously await even further water restrictions….

But for over one billion people this is not even imaginable. Their reality is incomparable. Each day 4,000 children die as a consequence of drinking contaminated water. 2.4 billion people have no access to proper sanitation facilities. Half of the hospital beds in developing countries are occupied by people suffering from sanitation and water-related diseases.

some important links: the recent World Water Day

UN Water initiative, THE BIG ISSUE on Health: SANITATION