Every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease.

Awful.

clipped from www.nature.org I recently attended an international water conference during which the keynote speaker revealed a shocking statistic: Every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease. He equated this to a 747 jetliner full of kids going down every hour. Stunned by the enormity of this tragedy, I reflected on the relevance of our conservation work to this year’s World Water Day theme of water scarcity. The lack of suitable water for people and for nature is a growing crisis: More than 1 billion humans lack access to clean drinking water. Two billion — almost one in every three people on the planet — do not have adequate sanitation facilities or electricity.