Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne illness...Every year, about 110000 children under the age of five die of water borne diseases in Bangladesh due to lack of sanitation...One in six African children dies before the age of five..."Water-borne diseases are claiming one child every three seconds"
Ennedy, a school teacher in a small community along the Zambezi river in Africa, tells us how her 18 month old daughter died from diarrhoea prior to using the bio-sand filter. Mandia, Zambia 2009
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