The United Nations recognises access to clean water and sanitation as a fundamental human right. When this basic right is denied, it has a devastating impact on people and communities. The lack of safe access to clean water directly affects the health, economy, dignity and security of people.

Delivery of this fundamental human right is the duty of the state. Still, in many countries, due to poor state infrastructure, lack of resources, overpopulation, scarce water resources, corruption and war, the national institutions cannot provide clean water to communities. During our work in Asia and Africa over the years, we found that the girl child and the women are at forefront for management of household water supply, sanitation, and health.

Facts:

More people die from lack of clean drinking water than from all forms of violence combined… including war! (United Nations) At present, 2.1 billion people have inadequate access to sanitation… with nearly a billion people practicing open defecation.

About 740 million people have no access to safe drinking water at all.

Illness & Disease

Fully half of the hospital beds worldwide are occupied by someone suffering from a water-related illness.

Diarrhea is the leading cause of death for children under 5 worldwide and is entirely preventable. 80% of all diseases are waterborne. (World Health Organization)

One of Muntada Aid’s core values is providing dignity to people we support. Keeping that in mind, we aim to provide clean water solutions to people within their communities and ease off their burden of daily searching for freshwater resources.