Water is Essential to Sustain Life

Our atmosphere provides an enormous untapped water source

• 1.2 billion people lack access to clean drinking water (UN).

• By 2025 that number will more than double to 2.8 billion (UN).

• Annual deaths from diseases caused by poor drinking water and sanitation: 10 million.

• Water supplies are increasingly pressured by pollution, the shift to water-intensive agriculture, and aquifer depletion.

• 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation. This is almost two fifths of the world's population. (WHO/UNICEF)

• 1.4 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 4,000 deaths a day or one every 20 seconds. (WHO)

• The lack of safe water and sanitation costs sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of its Gross Domestic Product each year. (UNDP)

• 97% of the planet's water is salt water
• 2% of the planet is fresh water but it is frozen in the polar caps and glaciers
• Less than 1% of fresh water is readily available for human use

Aqua Sciences provides a direct tap to this 1%