One glass of water deters hunger pangs for 98 percent of the dieters observed in a University of Washington study.
  The biggest trigger of daytime fatigue is lack of water.

    One fifth of the world's freshwater fish — 2,000 of 10,000 species identified — are endangered, vulnerable, or extinct. In North America, the continent most studied, 67 percent of all mussels, 51 percent of crayfish, 40 percent of amphibians, 37 percent of fish, and 75 percent of freshwater mollusks are rare, imperiled, or already gone.

In a one hundred year period, an average water molecule spends 98 years in the ocean, 20 months as ice, about two weeks in lakes and rivers, and less than a week in the atmosphere.

Wetlands are among the world’s most productive environments. They are cradles of biological diversity, providing the water and primary productivity upon which countless species of plants and animals depend for survival. They support high concentrations of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrate species. Wetlands are also important storehouses of plant genetic material.

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Water scarcity encourages people to store water in their homes. This can increase the risk of household water contamination and provide breeding grounds for mosquitoes - which are vectors for dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever, and malaria and other diseases.

(Source: WHO at http://www.who.i

The average distance that women in developing countries walk to collect water per day is four miles and the average weight that women carry on their heads is approximately 44 pounds.

Over 40 billion work hours are lost each year in Africa to the need to fetch drinking water.

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More people die each year from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.

The leading cause of child death in the world is diarrhea. UNICEF estimates that in 1993 alone, 3.8 million children under the age of five died from diarrhea resulting from ingesting waterborne pathogens.

Source: http://www.water.org/resources/disease.htm

According to the UN, 20 percent of the world's population in 30 countries face water shortages. This number is expected to rise to 30 percent of the world's population in 50 countries in 2025.

Presently, 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supply and 2.4 billion to improved sanitation. Unless action is stepped up, the number of people who lack access to improved water supply could increase to 2.3 billion by 2025.