women and girls like her in Africa spend up to 26% of their time walking an average of 3.75 miles to get clean water, then carry approximately 44 pounds of water to their homes, risking chronic health problems, injury and assault.
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more than 5,000 children under the age of 5 die every day (that is 1.8 million a year) of diarrhea due to infectious diseases from unsafe water supplies. |
safe water supplies, improved sanitation, and water management could save her and half a million other African children from malaria, 860,000 from malnutrition, and millions more from preventable bacteria, viral, and parasitic diseases. |
