People say that water is the fuel of life, that’s why we scoped in on how these scary facts about water and your impact on it.

What’s the sitch?
All of the world’s drinkable water can be represented by a single teaspoon. That’s only 1 percent of the Earth’s water.

Every day, almost 10,000 children under the age of 5 in 3rd world countries die as a result of diseases contracted from impure water.

Freshwater ecosystems have been severely degraded: it is estimated that about ½ the world’s wetlands have been lost. More than 20 percent of the world’s 10,000 known freshwater species have become extinct, endangered or threatened.

Rivers in Asia are the most polluted in the world. We have 3X as many bacteria from human waste as the global average and 20X more lead than those from industrialized countries.

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