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42% of Indians live under the global poverty line of $1.25 per day. family

India has a population of over 1 Billion people (1/6 of the earth’s population) and it is estimated by 2045 the population of India will surpass China.
The land mass that makes up India can fit into 1/3 of the US.
250 million people live in urban areas, while the other 750 million live outside of the cities in what is considered rural areas.
Each year India adds 18 million people, roughly another Australia.
The World Bank estimates that 456 million Indians (42% of the total Indian population) now live under the global poverty line of $1.25 per day

884 million people worldwide, lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
98% of water-related deaths occur in the developing world.
In India, only about 14% or 7 million rural households (out of 50 million) have access to piped water schemes to meet drinking and domestic water needs.

Over 6,000 children die daily due to sickness and disease related to bad water and poor sanitation. stagnant water

Most people resort to using water from open wells, while a small minority uses tanks and springs. Hence there is a high dependence on groundwater for drinking and other domestic purposes.
884 million people worldwide, lack access to safe water supplies, approximately one in eight people.
Nearly 90 percent of rural households collect water from community sources, which are often remote and suggests that a substantial amount of time and effort goes into water collection.
Women walk on average 3.5 miles a day to collect water and spend around 3 hours collecting and carrying water. The average weight of water carried on their heads is 45 pounds.
Over 6,000 children die daily due to sickness and disease directly attributable to bad water and poor sanitation.
Infant Mortality Rate:
- 1 out of every 9 boys dies in India before the age of 5.
- 1 out of every 10 girls dies in India before the age of 5.
The following diseases are the result of unclean water ingested through the stomach:
- Diarrhea
- Dysentery
- Cholera
- Typhoid
- Hepatitis
- Polio
Additionally, through standing water, stagnated water and drainage the following diseases get into our bodies through insect bites:
- Malaria (through mosquito bites)
- Encephalitis (through mosquito bites)
- Mosquito and Sand fly bites also cause other fevers. E.g.: Dengue fever, Sand fly fever etc.
- In India, diarrhea alone causes more than 1,600 deaths daily.

Wells for Life® has provided the funds for over 380 new water wells. new well

Wells for Life® carries out many of its projects in Andhra Pradesh, which is the fifth largest state in India and the fourth most populous. It has a population of 75 million with 50 million living in rural areas.
Half of the villages within Andhra Pradesh do not have safe drinking water throughout the year and this is typical of many of the Southern Indian states.

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