Currently, 2.5 BILLION people do not have sanitation.  In undeveloped or emerging countries, 90% of waste water is dumped into lakes, streams and rivers---which they also use for their drinking water.

14,000 die each day from water related disease.

80% of all illness is caused by contaminated or inadequate water4. ( http://www.un.org/summit/water.html )

 

In third world countries, every eight seconds a child  dies from contaminated water---691,200 children per day.

In the USA, 900,000 illnesses are caused by contaminated drinking water, resulting in 900 deaths annually. 6 ( http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/water/watwhy.html )