FACTS AND FEATURES

Facts and Figures
1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water

2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation (2002, UNICEF/WHO JMP 2004)

1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases.

3 900 children die every day from water borne diseases (WHO 2004)

Daily per capita use of water in residential areas:
- 350 litres in North America and Japan
- 200 litres in Europe
- 10-20 litres in sub-Saharan Africa

Over 260 river basins are shared by two or more countries mostly without adequate legal or institutional arrangements.

Quantity of water needed to produce 1 kg of:
- wheat: 1 000 L
- rice: 1 400 L
- beef: 13 000 L
(D.Zimmer,and D.Renault, 2003)
Resources / Supply
By water resources, we mean all the water available for human use, namely domestic use, agriculture, industry.
By water supply, we mean water that has been treated and has become drinking water.
The poorer the country, the smaller the difference, as people often drink water without treatment. As long as the country develops, the management of water resources in general differs from the one of drinking water.
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