Sentences with phrase «drinking water access»

Portable potable test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved sources as a measure of drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.

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In short, nearly a billion people on the planet don't have access to clean, safe drinking water (that's one in eight people).

Before long, he came across HydroPreneur, an initiative set up by the Singapore government to improve global access to clean drinking water and find solutions to international water shortages.

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Flint, Michigan, which has endured a two - and - a-half-year struggle with lead - contaminated drinking water, would get access to a $ 170 million fund for infrastructure improvements and lead poisoning prevention under the bill.

They provided piping and the necessary infrastructure to restore access to clean drinking water for Beaumont's 118,000 residents.

As of now,, less than half the population has access to drinking water, according to CNN, and only half of the island's roads have been cleared.

while at sea, safer to drink alcohol with no access to fresh water or fuel to burn.

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.

Diseases borne of drinking unfiltered water are likely to spread, and an unknown number of storm victims have no access to food.

There is still a lack of access to safe drinking water, leading to preventable deaths.

And «more than half of the 3.4 million residents lacking access to clean drinking water,» according to POLITICO.

These struggles are also coping with occupation, use and distribution of the earth, the right to eat, access to drinking water, to be kept warm.

Or maybe you read a statistic about people who are getting sick and dying just because they don't have access to clean water to drink.

But what you probably are, is a «white, middle class american» who has free access to democracy and clean drinking water, and you do nt have to dodge bombs from B - 52s on a semi regular basis.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was brought to a halt by Obama recently, after several months of protest by Native Americans of the Standing Rock Sioux who argued that their sacred land was being disrupted by the pipeline and that a leak in the pipeline would threaten their drinking water.

Stella Artois» «Buy A Lady A Drink» campaign began in 2015 and the company this year announced a four - year recommitment to Water.org to help provide 3.5 million people with long - term, sustainable access to clean water by 2020.

Can you even imagine what your life would be like if you didn't have access to clean water to drink, to cook with, or bathe your children in?

Who receive minimum wages, housing, drinking water, sanitary facilities, and a safe workplace, while they and their families get access to schools, healthcare, transportation, and training.

One in nine people worldwide lacks access to safe drinking water.

you can start a really vigorous gluten free starter culture without having to open a whole packet of yeast for just a few grains by using a tablespoon or so of a fermented drink — kombucha, water kefir (Whole Foods carries a coconut water kefir that is very active) or if you have access to real unpasteurized sauerkraut you could probably use some of the liquid.

Emily's goal is to provide daily access to clean drinking water for schools and villagers in rural Zambia.

The UN works on many water entities such as distributing drinking water during disasters, protecting ecosystems, making sure that water is of sufficient quality, ensuring that our cities have enough water infrastructure, measuring progress of access to sanitation, looking at how we will have enough water to make food.

Access to the island is controlled by the tides, and campers must carry in everything they need, including drinking water, fuel, and cooking supplies.

The main issue with that was that many women in developing countries did not have access to clean drinking water, and their babies would die.

The drinks holder is designed to Velcro in place onto the handle bar or chassis of your stroller, giving you easy access to your water bottle.

The trays are at both ends of the stroller, making it easy for both the babies and you to have easy access to the cups to sip a drink or water during a strolling or jogging session.

Research even shows that when kids have better access to drinking water at school, obesity rates go down.

So, if a Guatemalan mom wants to give her nine - month - old a coffee - infused sugar drink from a bottle, I have two options: I can gasp in disgust and silently judge her in my head, pointing out all of the reasons why giving that baby anything but breast milk is not good for its health or newly formed teeth, or I can take time to learn and respect that maybe for this mom, who lives in conditions where there is little access to clean water, boiling water to make coffee is the only way to ensure her little baby doesn't get sick.

While breastfeeding provides a safe and nutritious food for infants in countries without reliable access to clean drinking water, the risk associated with formula feeding decreases exponentially in countries where women have easy access to regulated infant formula, properly cleaned bottles, and safe drinking water.

Under the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, kids are supposed to have access to free drinking water in their school cafeteria.

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

In many places, access to clean drinking water is a problem.

At camps that don't have access to pools or air - conditioned buildings — including some camps based in Chicago parks — counselors must be even more vigilant about making sure children stay in the shade, take it easy and drink plenty of water.

We donated our tommee tippee cups to support children and deprived families in rural communities in Moldova — where they still use the village well to access drinking water.

Breast milk meets baby's drinking needs and newborns and infants do not need to be offered water until they start solids provided they are given frequent access to breast milk.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

I would prefer my children to have more access to drinking water than offer them milk of any sort at school.

the lack of access to drinking water in school cafeterias and the degree to which the new requirement to provide water is an unfunded mandate many schools will have trouble meeting;

* Fits flush against kitchen counters for safe access, allowing your child to get a drink of water, help with dishes and laundry, decorate cookies and join in with other family activities

Those of us who have access to fluoridated water, toothbrushes, and dental care don't usually think of severe dental disease as a consequence of drinking sodas.

She also provides legal technical assistance to public health officials working to reduce sweetened beverage consumption and to increase access to drinking water.

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics on FEMA's Web page documenting the federal response to Maria.

Mr Mahama added: «If you take water, today the whole of West Africa, no country matches Ghana in terms of access to clean drinking water.

Now that we are doing the roads in all those areas, there is more cocoa being evacuated to the ports, you can send fertilizer to the farmers so that you can increase their productivity, more food can come to the market, which means food can become cheaper, people now have access to clean drinking water, which means people will be prevented from having all these water - borne diseases for which they go to hospital and overburden our NHIS.

The New York Public Interest Research Group has opened an online database giving residents a shortcut to accessing federal and state test results for contaminants in drinking water.

If the plans go through as currently envisioned, organisations such as Scottish Canals, Quality Meat Scotland, the Forestry Commission and the Drinking Water Quality Regulator would potentially have access to information about when people last went for a swim or visited their GP.

«This major investment will ensure that Auburn and Owasco residents continue to have access to clean drinking water and will prevent harmful algal toxins from contaminating the water supply,» Cuomo said.

President Mahama said the Government had taken Ghana from 58 per cent access to clean drinking water in 2008 to 76 per cent access in 2016.

Both of our agencies are thoroughly reviewing the EPA's guidance as we continue our aggressive efforts to ensure that all communities in New York State have access to water that's safe to drink.