When water gets contaminated, it can make people severely ill and malnourished.
Without renewable fresh water, these countries rely on imported bottled water.
Women and girls often bear the brunt of the water crisis.
In rural Indian and African communities that divide labor along more traditional gender roles, the responsibility often falls on women to provide for their family.
In Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours a year walking for water.
We can change that.
But this isn’t just a problem experienced by people abroad — many communities in the U.S. also live without clean water.
“…data CNBC obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency reveals that only nine U.S. states are reporting safe levels of lead in their water supply.
Every bit goes a long way toward helping a family have access to water.
When they don’t have to spent hours searching for it, they can focus their energy on other critical things like education.