• 1.1 billion, or about 1 in 6 people in the world,lack access to safe water near their homes for drinking, cooking, and washing.
• 2 times as many -2.5 billion- almost 40 percent of the planet's population, lack a safe and effective way to dispose of their bodily waste.
• Ten million people die of water borne diseases each year.
• Two million of those deaths are children.
• That is, nearly 5,000 children in the developing world die every day from diseases due to unsafe water, sanitation, or hygiene.
• The average life expectancy in Malawi is a little over 35 years. Much of this is due to a lack of clean water.
• There are 12 million people, of a population of 13 million, living below the poverty line. The poverty is both widespread and severe.

Epicenter Solutions has provided boreholes (wells) for remote villages, so that the people can avoid walking many miles and many hours per day just to get fresh water. The wells enable them to have time for other vital activities including school for children and farming for adults. Our progressive solutions are to set up long term clean water resources. Even in less remote villages, it is possible to drill new boreholes. The price of boreholes averages out to be $5,000.00. This includes the hand pump and the concrete platform around the borehole. We do not just drill wells but we also help the villages maintain them. We do this through maintenance training and providing replacement parts.

The solutions are simple.
The problems are preventable.