Water pollution has added to a number of incidences of mortality and morbidity. A new study has found that unsafe drinking water, insufficient availability of water for hygiene and lack of access to sanitation leads to around 88% of deaths from diarrheal diseases.

The new research has found that poor sanitation and unclean water is the world’s fifth biggest enemy of ladies. As per WaterAid, as many as 800,000 women died due to non-proper availability to clean water and safe toilets.

The risk factor includes many factors like ingestion of unsafe water, lack of water associated with inadequate hygiene, poor personal and domestic hygiene and agricultural practices, contact with unsafe water, management of water resources.

“This totally unsuitable circumstance influences ladies and young ladies’ education, their well being, their respect and at last, in an excess of cases, results in an early and unnecessary demise”, affirmed Barbara Frost, CEO of WaterAid.

Every year, only chronic obstructive pneumonic sickness, lower respiratory diseases, stroke and coronary illness take life of more number of women every year than poor sanitation and dirty water.

WaterAid said that one in every 10 women does not have access to clean water and a complete 1 billion do not have access to sterile toilets. Frost shared that there are places in poor countries where women still have to draw drinking water from wells. They spend hours every day trekking to and from wells.

It does not allow them to attend schools or take care of their families. In Africa, people spend 40 billion hours every year walking for water. Not only this, women and children have to bear the burden of water collection.

Lack of clean water and toilets affects women and girls’ education, their health and dignity.