• Children: Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness — probably since you started reading this article. This is a horrifying statistic, especially since these are completely preventable given clean water, access to a toilet, and proper hygiene. The incredible news is that this is an improvement over a few years ago, when the statistic was every 15 seconds. That amounts to 1440 lives saved every day.
• Women: Women walk an average of 3.7 miles each day to fetch water for their families. Collectively, this amounts to 200 million hours each day…enough work hours to build 28 Empire State Buildings on a daily basis.
• Sanitation: More people have a mobile phone than a toilet. That’s over one billion people without access to basic sanitation. This is how people are getting so ill.
• Let Water Day automatically post a status on your Facebook or Twitter daily through March 24.
• Get Involved with the Water.org community. There are many available options from following them on social media to lesson plans for teachers to implement in the classroom.
• Change your Facebook Timeline or Twitter Background for World Water Day.
• $25 provides one person access to clean water for life. Donate what you can.

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