WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT:

• Over 1 billion people don’t have clean water
• Over 2.3 billion don’t have clean sanitation
• Every 30 seconds a child dies from lack of clean water
• More people die each year from lack of clean water, than all forms of violence combined, including war
• 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
• 84% of water-related deaths are in children ages 0 – 14.
• 98% of water-related deaths occur in the developing world.
• At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
• Less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (0.007% ) is readily accessible for direct human use.

• Over 50 percent of all water projects fail and less than five percent of projects are visited, and far less than one percent have any longer-term monitoring. RFR is different