According to Unicef, worldwide every day about 1800 children (under the age of 5) die as the result of contaminated water and unhygienic sanitation. 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 happens every single day because of poor water, sanitation and hygiene.
According to Water.org, in Ghana only 13% of people have access to improved sanitation, 3 million people lack access to safe water, and 23 million people lack access to improved sanitation. Dependency on unsafe water sources is particularly high in rural areas. As a result, in Ghana 25% of all deaths in children under the age of 5 are attributed to diarrhea.
EcoSan Ghana drills for water and builds water purification plants to address this, in both Ghana and Mozambique
