The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has called on governments, civil society groups and citizens of nations to remember the children as World Water Day was marked last Friday.
Globally, an estimated 2,000 children under the age of five die every day from diarrheal diseases and, of these, some 1,800 deaths are linked to water, sanitation and hygiene lack, Unicef said.
“Sometimes we focus so much on the big numbers that we fail to see the human tragedies that underlie each statistic,” said Sanjay Wijesekera, global head of Unicef’s water, sanitation and hygiene program.
“If 90 school buses filled with kindergartners were to crash every day, with no survivors, the world would take notice. But this is precisely what is happening every single day because of poor water, sanitation and hygiene,” Wijesekera said.
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