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Help Fund a Water Project
Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness
Women spend 200 million hours a day collecting water
The majority of illness is caused by fecal matter
More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.3
Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.1
Of the 60 million people added to the world's towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.7
780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.2
"[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns." 9
An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.9
Over 2.5X more people lack water than live in the United States.2
More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.2
Why It Matters
Did you know nearly 1 billion people don't have safe water to drink?
Together, we can change that. Let's fund a new source of drinking water for those who suffer needlessly without it!
Our gifts will be used to construct or rehabilitate a water project, like a well or sand dam, in Africa. We'll see pictures, GPS coordinates, and updates as they come in from the actual water project we fund so we can celebrate the results along with the community we help.
About The Water Project
The Water Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization unlocking human potential by providing clean, safe water to communities around the world who suffer needlessly without.
Working with local partners in countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Uganda, we build long lasting water projects that are organized, owned and managed by the communities receiving them.
Together, with our partners we identify, implement, report on and follow up on every project. Then we share the whole story with you to inspire confidence in the work being done and the impact it has.