The United Nations marked World Water Day on Monday with a warning that unsafe water kills more people than wars and all other forms of violence combined. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 million people under the age of five die every year from water-related diseases. Also marking World Water Day, Bolivian President Evo Morales called on the UN to declare access to safe water a universal human right.

Bolivian President Evo Morales: “The United Nations, in its sixty-fifth session, should approve the following: declare access to potable water and basic sanitation a universal human right so that states and the UN move forward in respect to this right and use progressive national and international measures to universally apply it.”