• Water-related diseases is the single largest killer of infants
in developing countries • 1.8 million children die each year
from diarrhea, which is 4,900 per day • The average American
uses 180 gallons of water each day to cook, clean and drink. The
average African person struggles to find 5 gallons of water each
day. • Only 49% of Sierra Leone’s population has access to an
improved drinking water source and only 26% of those in the
rural areas. • Nearly half of people in developing countries
suffer from water-related diseases • On average, women in rural
Africa spend 26% of their time each day collecting water, often
walking more than five miles each way to the nearest water
source, which prevents many of them from working or attending
school and puts them at greater risk for sexual harassment and
assault Sierra Leone is among the world’s poorest countries.
Poverty is widespread with more than 70% of the population
living below the poverty line and the country ranks last in the
Human Development Index. The