Sentences with phrase «increase access to drinking water»

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

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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.

But the catastrophe is actually an unintended consequence of a successful drive to increase access to fresh drinking water.

For example, there's been a 14 % increase in the proportion of the population with access to safe drinking water, and the number of protected areas is increasing.

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

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.

This is true for the Torres Strait region, where the effect may be immediate; that is, as a result of a climate - change induced extreme weather, a threat that has already been felt when a young girl's life was at risk in the 2006 king tides; or it may occur gradually, through deterioration in health, diminished access to safe drinking water and increased susceptibility to disease.