Sentences with phrase «global access to safe water»

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This effort was a result of their nine year strategy to provide people access to clean, safe water and conserve global water supplies around the world.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

I would submit to you that to the extent that we have a global warming problem, and you want to say that there's no global warming problem, I think that you must agree with me that we have a problem with a billion human beings having Tuberculosis, with three and a half billion human beings living on less than $ 5 a day, with three to four billion human beings not having access to reliable water supply, safe water supplies, that we are pushing the carrying capacity of this planet pretty hard.

Global water crises — from drought in the world's most productive farmlands to the hundreds of millions of peoples without access to safe drinking water — are among the biggest threats facing the planet over the next decade.