Sentences with phrase «adequate access to drinking water»

About 15 million people in Africa are without adequate access to drinking water, and Emily Pilloton is doing something about it.

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This is the modest sum which needs to be invested each year in «social support» to guarantee universal access to drinking water within ten years (1,300 million individuals did not have access in 1997), universal access to basic education (1,000 million people are illiterate), universal access to basic healthcare (17 million children die each year from easily cured illnesses), universal access to adequate nourishment (2,000 million people suffer from anemia), universal access to sanitary infrastructures and universal access for women to gynecological and obstetric care.

Their incomes are so low that they lack access to the most basic goods and services: adequate nutrition, safe drinking water and sanitation, and life - saving health interventions.

New research demonstrates the real - world potential of providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources.

Improved access to drinking water of more adequate quantity and better quality, and improved sanitation reduce the main factors of morbidity and mortality of young children

Water is scarce during the dry season, and at least 50 % of the population lack adequate access to safe drinking wWater is scarce during the dry season, and at least 50 % of the population lack adequate access to safe drinking waterwater.

Yet already 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, and 1.8 million people die every year from waterborne diarrhoeal diseases.