Sentences with phrase «lack access to safe»

Yet already 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, and 1.8 million people die every year from waterborne diarrhoeal diseases.

In 2000 1.1 billion people lacked access to safe water and 2.4 billion to sanitation services.

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

Not exact matches

LifeStraw Safe Water Fund People in Puerto Rico still lack access to clean drinking water — here you can send them individual filters or one large enough to supply a small village.

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

«Consider the Golden Rice — it is only meant to address Vitamin A Deficiency when in fact, the problem on malnutrition involves other nutrients as well, which is caused by the lack of access to safe and sufficient food.»

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.

The lack of access to safe water, and to utensils and fuel to boil it, adds to the hazards of formula feeding, Shereen said, adding: «Women often just mix the formula with ordinary water, which is often contaminated, and bacteria flourish when this happens.»

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

According to the United Nations Population Funds statement to mark the global event, close to 214 million women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and effective family planning methods either because they lack access to information, or because they can't get support from their partners or communities.

A recent study in Environmental Health showed that access to clean water could reduce childhood mortality by 1.17 deaths per 1,000 children, which is a large number of preventable deaths for the millions of children who lack access to improved water — and millions more who apparently lack access to fully safe water supplies.

Their incomes are so low that they lack access to the most basic goods and services: adequate nutrition, safe drinking water and sanitation, and life - saving health interventions.

U.N. Development Goals for better drinking water have already been reached, but a closer look shows that the measures fail to truly account for the lack of access to safe water

«Does that mean that people are getting access to safe and efficacious interventions or is there basically unapproved human experimentation taking place where people are going to these businesses and receiving experimental investigational cell - based interventions without being given a meaningful account of the lack of knowledge and evidence that they're being charged for?»

Addressing the audience in the aftermath of the discovery of high levels of lead in the water system of Flint, Michigan, Edwards framed his presentation in terms of water infrastructure inequality in the United States, including lack of access to both adequate quantities of water and to water of safe quality.

All told, nearly one billion people worldwide lack access to such safe drinking water — a long - standing humanitarian crisis.

With three out of four students in the U.S. lacking access to summer learning programs and a shortage of interested K - 12 students in STEM subjects, Boys & Girls Clubs serve as a partner to schools by providing a safe and supportive place for youth to learn without limits during out - of - school time.

Sporting Ubisoft's largest ever open world environment, the Ghost Recon: Wildlands closed beta only allowed us access to one of the 12 (ish) zones that comprise the Bolivian country, and judging by the equally huge amount of (and limited access to) weaponry and story content I think it's safe to say this game will rarely lack for things to do.

Sexy Beast program director and co-chair Eliah Perona adds, «Access to safe, reliable, and quality reproductive healthcare is being challenged in every state in the U.S., and the effects are far reaching — particularly for those who lack employer - sponsored health care, which is something women artists can certainly identify with.

How many people around the world lack access to electricity and safe household fuels?

Water is scarce during the dry season, and at least 50 % of the population lack adequate access to safe drinking water.

But behind this aromatic export lies a community of farmers and families that face huge daily challenges — including lack of access to safe water and widespread deforestation of their land.

More than 840 million people worldwide, or 1 in 9, do not have access to safe water, and 2.3 billion, or 1 in 3, lack access to a toilet.

In the West African nation of Togo, more than half of the population live below the poverty line, and a large number of the population lack reliable access to education, healthcare, electricity, and clean or safe drinking water.

Most unaccompanied youth are unable to access safe housing or shelter, for a combination of reasons, including: being too young to consent for services without a parent; fear of child welfare involvement; and the lack of services overall: more than half of those who seek shelter can not access it because shelters are full.