World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called on the countries of the world to guarantee access to sanitation, a vital fluid, as part of the first Conference on the water for almost 50 years, since World Water Day.

Both believed that the world needed to quadruple its current rate of progress to achieve universal access to such services in order to protect health and the future of people.

According to UN agencies, at least 1.4 million people annually, many of whom are children, die for preventable reasons related to the absence of these assets.

It’s because of 2 billion people do not have drinking water and 3.6 billion (nearly half the world’s population) use sanitation services that do not treat human waste.

Added to this is the fact that half of all establishments health they have no vital fluid and soap or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer solution.

“Without these essential services, people get sick, children don’t study especially girls, and entire communities can be displaced a lack of water”

These services are key to development healthy childhood and save welfare in adulthood. They also offer a path to broader social and economic progress, they say, by keeping society healthy and productive.

With this in mind, UNICEF and WHO called on all countries to radically accelerate action to make water, sanitation and hygiene a reality for all.