the facts
The Children's Safe Drinking Water program provides clean drinking water to people who really need it.
Every day more than 4,000 children in developing countries die, simply because they don't have clean drinking water. With your help, we can make a difference.
- Contaminated drinking water is a major problem.
- More than one billion people do not have access to safe water.
- Diarrhea caused by drinking contaminated water remains a leading cause of illness and death among infants and children in the developing world.
- About 1.8 million children die every year due to diarrheal diseases.
- More children die from diarrheal illnesses like cholera and dysentery than from HIV/AIDS or malaria combined.
- P&G has collaborated with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) since 1995 to develop safe drinking water systems that people can easily use in their homes.
- There is conclusive evidence that simple, low-cost interventions at the community level can dramatically improve the quality of household stored water and greatly reduce the risk of diarrheal disease and death.
- It is well documented that simply providing safe, clean, drinkable water can reduce deadly diarrhea and other devastating diseases by about 50%.
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