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Salmonella – causes fever, vomiting and dehydration

Anabaena- causes death (breathing stops)

Naegleria- attacks the nervous system 98% of infected people die

Cryptosporidium- causes diarhoea and death by dehydration

E. coli

ChaetomiumRotifers

• 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, (1 in 3 of the world's population.)

• Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.

• More people have a mobile phone than a toilet. • The 2015 goal to halve the proportion of

people living without sanitation is running 150 years behind schedule in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Women in Africa and Asia often carry water on their heads weighing 20kg, the same as the average UK airport luggage allowance

• Every 21 seconds, a child dies from diarrhoea

• Diarrhoea is the second biggest killer of children under five years old worldwide.

• Hygienic practices such as washing hands with

soap can reduce the risk of diarrhoea by 50%