March 22.. World Water Day

4,000 children die each day from a lack of safe water.

Two buckets of safe water a day – 20 litres – is the bare minimum a child needs to live. This is enough for drinking and eating, washing and basic sanitation. But some 4000 children die every day, because they simply don’t have access to an adequate supply of clean water.

“Clean water is an inviolable right,
not a privilege”

http://www.unicef.org/wes/index_bigpicture.html

Children's Rights with Regards to Water
According to the Conventions of the Rights of the Child children have the right to clean water to keep healthy and fit. (article 24). This is a basic element of their right to survive and reach their full potential (article 6) – one of the guiding principles of the Convention.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/wes/explore_1891.html


Safe Water: Keeping Healthy in Darfur

http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/wes/1883_2055.html

Lack of safe water endangers the health of Baghdad’s most deprived children

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/iraq_39172.html

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/

http://www.unicef.org/voy/wes/

A Resource for Children
http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/wes/explore_wes.php