Yet 3.6 billion people—almost half the world’s inhabitants—still don’t have access to toilets that get rid of their waste in a safe manner and 2 billion people have to drink from sources that are contaminated with human excrement.[6] As a result of these unsanitary conditions, 1.5 million people—mainly young children in low-income countries—die every year from waterborne diarrheal diseases such as rotavirus.[7] Cholera outbreaks still occur periodically and tend to strike particularly hard when normal life has been disrupted.
