Mind Changing Facts about Water Shortages
- On average, women and young girls in Africa and Asia have to walk 3.7 miles to collect water, preventing them from getting education.
- Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
- 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.
- On current trends over the next 20 years humans will use 40% more water than they do now
- Water use is increasing much faster than population
- According to a U.S. government report, 36 states are already facing water shortages or will be facing water shortages within the next few years.
- By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water stressed conditions.
- It takes around 15,500 liters of water to produce one kilogram of beef
- Access to water, and improved water and wastewater management in human settlements, reduce transmission risks of mosquito-borne illnesses, such as malaria and dengue fever
- 27% of urban area citizens in the developing world do not have access to piped water in their homes
- You will save more water by not eating a pound of meat than not showering for 6 months
- California's agriculture industry is worth around $27 billion.
- The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta produces an average of over $500 million worth of agriculture annually.