From space, the Earth looks blue because two thirds of its surface is covered with water. But appearances can be deceiving. Even on a planet covered in water, one of humanity's more scarce and precious resources is ... water.

Facts

Every year, more than three million people die from diseases related to impure water – 84% of the victims are children aged 14 and younger

Dirty water and related sanitation problems kill more people than warfare.

Almost a billion people – one of every eight people on Earth – don’t have access to safe water.

On average, every man, woman and child on Earth uses 13 gallons of water a day for drinking, sanitation, cooking and washing.

Sources: United Nations; World Health Organization

Clean Water: A Matter of Life and Death

Four billion humans need extraordinary amounts of water to live – and of the world's fresh water, 96% is unsafe to drink!

Indeed, so desperate are humans for safe drinking water that some experts fear that future conflicts might arise over struggles for scarce water resources.

In the Third World, having access to safe drinking water is more than a luxury – it is a matter of life and death.

And when natural disasters hit, the shortage of safe drinking water takes on a terrible urgency.

The germ-killing technology in IV-7 Ultimate Germ Defense™ is the same technology in IV-7 concentrate, which has already been used successfully to purify drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people.

Following the deadly tsunami in Southern Asia, the catastrophic earthquake in China and, more recently, the devastating earthquake in Haiti, IV-7's technology (patented silver dihydrogen citrate liquid concentrate) was donated to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations for the relief of victims.

Just six drops of the IV-7 concentrate will purify an entire gallon of water.

Hundreds of thousands of small two-ounce bottles of the IV-7 liquid concentrate were sent to the disaster areas. People who otherwise would have fallen ill or died from drinking contaminated water were able to use the water at hand from streams, lakes or rainfall without fear.

Unlike shipments of bottled water, which take up lots of space and are harder to transport, the IV-7 concentrate could get to the people who needed it much more quickly. Enough to purify 40 million gallons of water fit into just two helicopters.

We are determined to bring this lifesaving solution to as many people as possible, in all parts of our thirsty world.

IV-7 concentrate is not registered or sold in the U.S. for water treatment.