Sentences with phrase «lacked access to safe water»

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

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

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

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.»

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

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.

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

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.

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.