Sentences with phrase «citizens have access to electricity»

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Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, a category four storm, tore through Puerto Rico forging a path of devastation and destruction, many of the island's citizens still do not have access to food, water, medicine, or electricity.

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

Kerry will likely face resistance in seeking lockstep commitments, of course, given that India's prime challenge is bringing reliable electricity and affordable fuels by any means to its billion - plus citizens — some 400 million of whom were unaffected by last year's blackouts because they have no access to electricity at all.

India has several hundred million citizens without access to more than a dribble of electricity.

But given the glaring energy gap in poor regions (the 700 million sub-Saharan Africans outside of South Africa have access to the same amount of electricity as the 38 million citizens of Poland) every bit helps.

Most citizens can't afford a vehicle of any type, and many have no access to electricity.