About 1.8 million people died every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation, which amounted to around 5,000 deaths a day.
The simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhoeal cases by over 40 per cent, since water-related disease was the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections like tuberculosis, it said.
Image: A farmer looks at the sky, while standing amid his drought-stricken crop near Patiala in Punjab. | Photograph: Dipak Kumar/Reuters.
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