Water sustains all life on earth. Humans are more or less 70 percent water, and we can only survive about a week without it. Water is used keep our joints and muscles moist, regulate our body temperatures, carry nutrients and waste alike from one area in the body to another, and as a shock absorbent.
Approximately 70 percent of the earth is made of water. Unfortunately, 97 percent of this water is salt water and much of the other 3 percent is contaminated. About 780 million people lack access to clean water, that's about 1 in 9 people in the world.
Roughly 3.4 million people die from waterborne diseases annually; half the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people sick with waterborne diseases. Even the survivors are greatly affected by the disease, about 443 million school days are lost annually because of waterborne diseases. Some of these waterborne diseases include: cholera, hepatitis, dysentery, malaria, and E coli. The disease I decided to make this website about is called typhoid fever.