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Water and Sanitation

Text Box: 4,000 children 
will die in the next 24 hours from unclean water and poor sanitation.

Text Box: Almost half the population of the developing world suffers from some form of water-related disease. (U.N. Development Report, by Kevin Watkins )
Text Box: Wherever the Need builds composting toilets, drills water wells, constructs water storage tanks, and creates rainwater harvesting systems for villages, women’s cooperatives, schools and orphanages.

Waiting in line at the village water spigot.

Text Box: We teach hygiene and basic germ theory to those 
who receive new toilets and water wells. 
Text Box: Text Box: 2.6 billion people – 40 percent of the world’s 
population – have no toilet to use.

WTN built an eco-san toilet for this school in Madhuran-thakanallur, India. Members of the school’s sanitation committee are holding the booklet they wrote to educate their village about sanitation.

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Text Box: Before: 
Bathing area for 250 girls at this orphanage.
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New toilet and bath house WTN built for the orphanage.