Click to Copy: Today, 1 in 4 people – 2 billion people – around the world lack safe drinking water. (WHO/UNICEF, 2021)
Click to Copy: In the department of Chinandega there are a total of roughly 450,000 people – and over 100,000 still don’t have access to clean water – meaning that nearly 1 in every 4 people don’t have clean water
Click to Copy: The Department of Chinandega is roughly the size of the State of Delaware. There are more than 100,000 people in the department of Chinandega who do not have access to clean water.
Click to Copy: Investment in water and sanitation services generates a quantifiable, positive return on investment through saved medical costs and increased productivity (Hutton et al. 2015): The Return on Investment for Rural basic drinking water is $7 to $1