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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Water is life, and clean water means health.