A billion Africans do not have access to it. Those that do have to make do with 20 liters a day for drinking, cooking, washing, feeding animals and farming. In the Western World we each use of 300 liters every day. The need for water in Africa is so desperate that 2 million children die every year because they've be given dirty water to drink. Clean water in Africa means health, prosperity, and development. In the West, it's just something that comes out of the tap.