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Silent

2.6 billion people have no sanitation

958 million people in
East Asia and the Pacific

925 million people in
South Asia

437 million people in
sub-Saharan Africa

80 million people in
the Middle East

120 million people in Latin
America and the Caribbean


In Cambodia the daily wage for rural labourers does not even cover a family’s basic nutritional needs. It would take 20 days’ wages to buy a simple pit latrine ­ impossible when that money is needed for a family’s food, clothing and housing..

Crisis

1.1 billion people have no clean water

406 million people in
East Asia and the Pacific

229 million people in
South Asia

314 million people in
sub-Saharan Africa

38 million people in
the Middle East

49 million people in Latin
America and the Caribbean


660 million people live on less than US $2 a day, without access to a clean water source. Some 385 million of them live in absolute poverty on less than US $1 a day.

In the developing world 1 in 5 people are without safe water.

1/6 of the world’s population lacks access to clean water.