THE IMPACT
Water Scarcity and Education
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Water Facts
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Women and children spend 125 million hours each day collecting water, time otherwise better spent on education and other productive activities to boost their socioeconomic standing.
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443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases.
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Water availability in households is an important factor in the enrollment, attendance and drop-out rates of children. School enrollment rates increase by up to 15% in communities who gained more reliable access to clean water.
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The impact of women reclaiming time shouldn’t be underestimated - women reinvest up to 90% of their income back into their families, improving their family’s health and nutrition and ensuring that their children get a good education
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A third of all schools lack access to safe water.
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In some countries in Africa and Asia as few as 10% of schools have adequate and separate improved sanitation facilities, while student-to-latrine ratios can be as high as 150:1.
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Teachers are hesitant to re-locate to communities without a reliable and safe source of water, this has a profound negative impact on the quality of education that marginalized low-income and poverty-stricken communities have access to.
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263 million children and adolescents are not enrolled in a school worldwide, 25 million will never start.
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One-third (21.1 million) of the 93.3 million children and adolescents of Sub-Saharan Africa live in conflict areas.