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Today, more than one in three people do not have access to safe water.71 This partly explains why diarrhea remains so widespread, and kills over 760,000 children every year.72 Given that an estimated one- half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water- related illnesses, diarrhea could cost over 73 million working days per year to the Indian economy, and 20 percent of Nigeria’s GDP. But lack of safe water also has many other implications: in Africa and Asia, women walk an average of 6 km per day to fetch water for their family. Tens of millions of children skip school to help their mothers with the water chores.
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Kayser, O., Budinich, V. (2015). Drinking water. In: Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466549_8
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