Do you see anybody dropping dead from lack of water? It would only take 3 to 5 days.
The answer is NO!
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Red Cross says lack of clean water, sanitation kills as many as Indian Ocean tsunami every month - Red Cross says lack of clean water, sanitation kills as many as Indian Ocean tsunami every month
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR06-complete.pdf
Dropping dead from lack of clean drinking water and the lack of sanitation associated with the lack of clean water, is unfortunately, all too common in the modern era.
Like I said, they have plenty of water. The Red Cross said they lack safe clean water. Their water is still considered fresh water & not salt water. Just because they drink from a unfiltered & untreated source does not mean they lack water. All they need to do is pour it through a bucket with alternating layers of sand & charcoal to filter it & then add a few drops of bleach per gallon to kill virus & bacteria.
They lack common sense, not water. It reads more like they are not properly disposing of their waste, allowing it to contaminate their plentiful water.