Sentences with phrase «lacking access to safe drinking water»

One in nine people worldwide lacks access to 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.