In Uganda, roughly 24 million people do not have access to a clean source of drinking water...
When access to clean water is lacking, disease and death are inevitable.
Sadly, in Uganda, approximately 23,000 people, including 19,700 children under the age of 5, die each year from diarrheal diseases that were contracted by their unsafe drinking water source.
We could be preventing thousands of deaths each year with a water sanitation solution.
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The price of a lack of access to clean water is expensive for the Ugandan economy. Poor water sanitation costs Uganda around $177million USD annually.
Whether it is the 147 million lost due to premature death from disease, the 1.1 million lost due to productivity losses of people who are sick and unable to go to work,
or the 21 million that are spent each year on healthcare, dirty water is affecting the success and wellbeing of the Ugandan people. By providing a water sanitization solution for this country,
we could help its economy, and furthermore, its citizens.
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The amount of water that the average Ugandan uses per day is well below the amount that they should be getting.
The average Ugandan uses around 17L of water per day.
This is much lower than the 50L per person per day that should be used to ensure that their most basic needs are met.
Ugandans are not using enough water because it makes them sick, and it is not safe for them to consume or to wash with.
It’s a sure sign that a problem is really serious when human rights start to be ignored.
