1,800 children die daily from unsafe water: Unicef United
Nations, March 22 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
has said that almost 90 percent of death of children from
diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water,
lack of sanitation, or inadequate hygiene. Globally, an
estimated 2,000 children under the age of five die every day
from diarrhoeal diseases and of these some 1,800 deaths are
linked to water, sanitation and hygiene, the UN agency said as
the international community marked World Water Day, which falls
Friday this year, reported Xinhua. "Sometimes we focus so much
on the big numbers, that we fail to see the human tragedies that
underlie each statistic," says Sanjay Wijesekera, global head of
UNICEF's water, sanitation and hygiene program, Thursday. "If 90
school buses filled with kindergartners were to crash every day,
with no survivors, the world would take notice," Wijesekera
said. "But this is precisely what happens every single day
because of poor water, sanitation a