A TOP executive of a global nonprofit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world said access to clean, potable water in the Philippines has become a real crisis.

Guesting on 'Business and Politics,' a weekly program on SMNI hosted by The Manila Times Chairman and CEO Dante 'Klink' Ang 2nd, Griselda Santos, Water.org regional director for Southeast Asia, noted that based on a recent Unicef study, 780 million people across the world do not have access to clean, potable water, and every 2 minutes a child dies of waterborne diseases.