Sentences with phrase «access to safe water»

After a series of community consultations, lack of access to safe water was identified as a key issue.

In 2000 1.1 billion people lacked access to safe water and 2.4 billion to sanitation services.

If you are planning to travel abroad, remember you need access to safe water supplies if making up feeds.

Having ready access to safe water makes it easy to forget that there are people all over the world that aren't so lucky.

But behind this aromatic export lies a community of farmers and families that face huge daily challenges — including lack of access to safe water and widespread deforestation of their land.

If you live in a part of the world in which you do not have access to safe water supply, you can either use bottled water or boil water when preparing baby formula.

ACCESS: Provide people with the infrastructure for improved access to safe water for consumption and hygiene, as well as sanitation.

And the statistics on deep and unremitting poverty speak for themselves: 250,000 women dying from causes relating to pregnancy each year; 330 million people without access to safe water; 565 million people without access even to a basic pit latrine.

In April 2008 WaterAid and Ecover launched a partnership to help 14,750 people in Ethiopia gain access to safe water and sanitation.

In 2015 — and as part of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals — a UN Initiative set a target to make sure everyone on the planet has access to safe water by 2030.

Ensuring access to safe water is one of the major challenges we face this century.

In rural Rwanda, where roughly one in four people lack access to a safe water source, many communities rely on rivers and streams to drink, wash, clean, farm, and play.

Workers on Rainforest Alliance Certified tea farms benefit from decent wages and housing, as well as access to safe water, health care and education for their children.

Action Against Hunger UK saves the lives of malnourished children by providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources has reaffirmed government's commitment to supporting prudent initiatives aimed at increasing public access to safe water and improved sanitation.

She won the Goldman Prize for her work resisting a series of dam developments that could have cut off her indigenous Lenca people from traditional access to safe water, food and medicine.

«I believe that bottled water is a symptom of a larger set of issues: the long - term decay of our public water systems, inequitable access to safe water around the world, our susceptibility to advertising and marketing, and a society trained from birth the buy, consume, and throw away,» writes Gleick.

Despite the absence of a specific target on Water and Sanitation, there was a goal that referred to halve the population without access to safe water and improved sanitation.

But this and other devices will likely need much more evaluation before the U.N. and others can confidently mandate this sort of on - site water safety testing worldwide to truly get a bead on global access to safe water.

Through the construction of water supply systems in communities and rainwater harvesting systems in school compounds, Acqua for Life and Green Cross ensure community members, particularly women and children, have sustainable access to safe water.

The collaboration will feature a charity component — 25 % of sales from the H&M for Water swimsuit collection will be donated to H&M for WaterAid, which helps raise money for the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water.

Moreover, in a country where 13 million people do not have access to safe water supplies, baby formula is commonly mixed with unclean water and dispensed in unsterilised bottles, often causing the child to become ill.

Thanks to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, countries around to world have committed to ensuring that everyone has access to safe water by 2030, and there are targets on protecting the natural environment and reducing pollution.

Up to 1.8 billion people, a quarter of the world population, may lack access to safe water, more than double the 783 million estimated by the WHO.

Right now, 1.1 Billion people on the planet don't have access to safe water.

Access to safe water is an urgent challenge for rural populations in several East African countries.

It's hygienic and especially helpful when you don't know whether you'll have access to safe water.

The lack of access to safe water, and to utensils and fuel to boil it, adds to the hazards of formula feeding, Shereen said, adding: «Women often just mix the formula with ordinary water, which is often contaminated, and bacteria flourish when this happens.»

Moms needing #breastfeeding assistance or moms who have a newborn and do not have access to safe water or formula, let us help you breastfeed.

U.N. Development Goals for better drinking water have already been reached, but a closer look shows that the measures fail to truly account for the lack of access to safe water

Only 58 % of the population has access to safe water.

The global crisis of access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and hygiene education is solvable.

More than 840 million people worldwide, or 1 in 9, do not have access to safe water, and 2.3 billion, or 1 in 3, lack access to a toilet.

Reducing black carbon and tropospheric ozone, conserving and restoring ecosystems and agricultural soils, limiting population by ensuring that everyone has access to safe water, sanitation, health and education and increasing R&D into energy systems — are simply some of the ways of making cost effective changes.

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.