- 2.5 billion people use biomass for heating and cooking.
- 1.5 million people die, half of these deaths are children, from indoor air pollution from using biomass.
- 1.6 billion people live without electricity.
- Only 0.74 percent of the world's water is considered safe for drinking, and some two billion people either lack access to sufficient quantities
- 12 % of the world’s population uses 85% of Earth's water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.
- 2 billion lack access to an adequate clean water supply and another 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation
- The US has the highest average water use in the world at 600 liters a day compared to 20 litre per day used by 1.8 billion poor people.
- 1.8 million children die each year from diarrhea.
- Water-related illness is the cause of children missing 443 million school days.
- Millions of women spend several hours each day in unsafe conditions collecting water.
- Global marine resources continue to decline.
- Hundreds of species are declining in population and range and are moving towards extinction.
- Forests are disappearing rapidly in South America and Africa.
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