- 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.
- Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
- 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.
- 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.
- "[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns."
- An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.
- More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.
