World Drowning Prevention Day: seconds can save a life

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World Drowning Prevention Day, 25 July

Drowning has caused more than 2.5 million preventable deaths in the past decade. This equates to 650 deaths every day, 26 every hour – a silent epidemic of preventable deaths. Anyone can drown, but it can almost always be prevented. Yet every year nearly a quarter of a million people lose their lives to drowning, and almost 82,000 of them are children aged 1 to 14 years. Drowning is among the 10 leading causes of death for people aged 1-24 years. Children under 5 are at greatest risk.