Sentences with phrase «increase access to clean water»

A Clean Water Campaign for Puerto Rico is an initiative to increase access to clean water for 1.2 million people in Puerto Rico.

Perhaps one political solution is allocating funds to governments that demonstrate measurable good governance as an incentive to invest in increasing access to clean water and sanitation for their people.

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Among other things, the founders have donated portions of online orders to nonprofits, organized volunteers to help the homeless during frigid winters, and built a well in Nigeria to increase clean water access for hibiscus farmers.

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

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.

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in 1977, working with women to improve their livelihoods by increasing their access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water.

Give your cat access to clean, cool fresh water at all times and feed Wellness ® CORE ® wet food in combination whenever possible, to increase the level of water in your cat's diet.

Give your cat access to clean, cool fresh water at all times and feed Wellness CORE cat food in combination whenever possible to increase the level of water in your cat's diet.

Give your dog access to clean, cool fresh water at all times and feed Wellness ® CORE ® wet food in combination whenever possible, to increase the level of water in your dog's diet.

But as the region urbanizes, pollution levels in the lake have increased and access to clean water for disadvantaged

Following a tumultuous year for the coal industry, including the disastrous coal - chemical spill that left 300,000 without access to clean water in West Virginia, and increasing layoffs as coal mining continues to decline, a coalition of Appalachian citizen groups are demanding increased action from the Obama Administration.

The Anglo - Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep - water activities — many of the planet's untapped fossil fuel resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access — but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than oil.

We know that access to clean and safe drinking water can increase water intake, which benefits overall health.9, 10 We also know that lead contamination in water has demonstrable impacts on cognitive development, attention and behavior, as well as a variety of impacts on physical health.11

«With the theft of their land, or environmental damage caused by industries like mining, agribusiness, or logging, it's harder for women to grow food or access clean water, and the work that they're already expected to do to support their families and communities increases,» said Global Witness» Alice Harrison in a recent interview with The Ecologist.

Food availability per capita and access to clean water have risen dramatically over the past half - century, reducing malnutrition and water - borne diseases and increasing life expectancy.

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in 1977, working with women to improve their livelihoods by increasing their access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water.

These cuts will do nothing to increase the number of people with access to clean drinking water and sanitation.

[I] t is a vast improvement that people both in the developed and in the developing world have dramatically increased their access to clean drinking water.

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.