Over the past ten years, aid funding to sub-Saharan Africa for HIV and other health issues has increased by over 500%. Funding for the region for water and sanitation issues has increased by only 79%. However, diseased related to lack of safe water and sanitation compose half of all hospital admissions in the developing world. Those diseases kill more children every year than malaria, measles, and HIV combined. 
[This blog is part of Blog Action Day 2010.]

Please support these organizations that use sustainable solutions to improve access to safe water and sanitation:
Charity: Water
Water Aid