World Vision Shares 8 Million Reasons to Keep Working Beyond World Water Day

Organizations Representative Explains Why Clean Water Is Vital in Lives of Children and Struggling Communities

Over 4,000 children lose their lives daily due to drinking unsafe water, exposure to poor sanitation, and hygiene-related diseases (referred to as WASH conditions) and, according to World Vision, eight million children are expected to die this year due to diseases caused by such issues. That is why the organization is using World Water Day as an occasion to draw special attention to the plight of those struggling to survive without clean water.

Water, sanitation, and hygiene are the "foundation for development," according to Randy Strash, a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategist and expert at World Vision. World Vision's Clean Water Fund is the main source of revenue for the organization in its work to bring relief to those in need of clean water.

"Water, sanitation and hygiene is absolutely critical for child and community well-being," Strash explained in a recent interview with The Christian Post. "If you don't have access to safe water, if you don't have good sanitation, if you don't have hygiene, all the other improvements are going to be like a band-aid on a major wound."

Particularly hard hit are the young, as 90 percent of those who die due to a lack of clean water and poor sanitation and hygiene are children under the age of five, with 70 percent of those children not making it through their first year of life. Keep reading