Food & Water

Enough food and water exist for everyone, yet broken infrastructure leaves billions without these basic necessities.

Clean water access

Why do 2.2 billion people still live without safe water to drink?

Solution progress:

505kdiarrhoeal deaths a year caused by contaminated drinking water

Why is a third of all food grown never eaten?

Solution progress:

8–10%of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food never eaten

Hunger and malnutrition

Why do 673 million people go hungry in a world that already grows enough food?

Solution progress:

45%of deaths in children under 5 linked to malnutrition

Why do 3.4 billion people still lack a safe toilet?

Solution progress:

564kdeaths a year from unsafe sanitation, mostly diarrhoeal disease

Soil degradation

Why is the world losing fertile soil faster than nature can make it?

Solution progress:

12mn haof farmland turn to desert every year, food for tens of millions lost with it