All children have the right to be healthy. Yet thousands of children die every day because of inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services and poor hygiene practices. Every year, diarrhoea claims the lives of 1.5 million children and has serious impacts on the welfare of millions more - such as ill health, impaired learning, environmental degradation and lost opportunities. This is wrong.
UNICEF works in more than 90 countries around the world to put it right by improving water supplies and sanitation facilities in schools and communities, and promoting safe hygiene practices.
