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Safe and Clean drinking water – a necessity of life haven’t reached around million people world wide, who have are left with no option but to fetch and drink contaminated water. This unavailability of clean drinking water is not only just an issue, but it is a threat, taking aid of thousand of lives every day.

Undoubtedly, clean drinking water is an extremely fundamental need and resource for human life, used for infinite list of tasks and application on daily basis. However, there are millions who lack access to this incredibly valuable resource of life.

Currently water crisis, one of the alarming threats to the world, is on its peak. Around 844 million people (and counting) lack access to clean drinking water. These people have no choice but to use contaminated water. Moreover water-related disease due to consumption of contaminated water takes aid of thousands with every passing day.

Do you know the clean drinking water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through gun! Around 3.575 Million people die each year from water related disease.

It is believed that crisis of clean and safe drinking water is chief problem of third world countries, due to which these people are unable to rise out of poverty. Mostly women and children have to take up the arduous job of fetching water and face excessive burden each day to carry water on their back for their families. According to research women and children walk almost six-kilometer per day and 6 hours daily are consumed for fetching water, due to which thousands of children are not able to attend their schools.

Besides enduring the negative environmental effects of walking long distances in the hot sun for water, women and children also have to face other posed dangers like bites of poisonous snakes and men with ill-thoughts.

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