An estimated 1.4 billion people survive on incomes of $1.25 or less a day.

Some 2.6 billion people worldwide have one thing in common, they do not have access
to sanitation.

Worldwide, about 1.7 million deaths a year, 90 percent of which are children, are attributed to unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene, mainly through infectious diarrhoea.

Access to sanitation, the practice of good hygiene, and a safe water supply could save
1.5 million...