Sentences with phrase «people lack access»

He greatly underestimates rates of species extinction, and denies that it matters that billions of people lack access to clean water.

Off - grid solar solutions have really begun to take off in Sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately 600 million people lack access to electricity, and particularly in East Africa.

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.

«Billions of people lack access to clean drinking water and researchers are constantly searching for cost - effective ways to purify water for rural villages and developing areas.

Three - quarters of the global population uses just 10 percent of the world's energy, 1 billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion cook their food over dung, wood, and charcoal, leading to millions of early deaths.

Sub-Saharan Africa, where more people lack access to electrical power than any other major world region, is a focal point for associated efforts.

One of the regions where universal access to clean energy remains a pressing challenge is sub-Saharan Africa, where roughly 590 million people lack access to electricity.

There's strong — and to a large extent justified — resistance to new carbon commitments in India, for example, where hundreds of millions of people lack access to any modern energy sources, let alone clean ones.

Moreover, as Robert Putnam demonstrates in his new book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, 6 too many of our young people lack access to opportunities to find their talent for art, music, athletics, and other abilities — opportunities that help them develop vital skills and build connections and relationships to adults.

Mmantsetsa Marope, director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education, highlighted just recently in a 2017 report that 263 million young people lack access to education worldwide and for many more, the quality of education they can access is not of the standard it needs to be.

Because deaf people lack access to such potentially life - saving cues, a group of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon built a pair of glasses which allows the wearer to «see» when a loud sound is made, and gives an indication of where it came from.

Food insecurity occurs when people lack access to food or go hungry due to poverty or other challenges.

Adequate sanitation is crucial to reducing under - five mortality and morbidity rates, yet 2.4 billion people lack access.

Nearly 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.

In fact, water is the most important ingredient to life and unfortunately 2.5 billion people lack access to clean water.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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

So the WHO chose another goal: to halve the number of people lacking access to «improved» water supplies.

ONE IN SIX PEOPLE lacks access to clean water worldwide, making diarrheal illness — a direct result of poor sanitation — the leading cause of death globally.

This is only a very slight improvement from 2012, when 1.1 billion people lacked access to electricity.

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to suffer from a major energy deficit, with hundreds of millions of people lacking access to electricity and clean cooking fuels.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the lack of access to capital more conspicuous than with aboriginal people in Alberta.

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, said there's a «lack of interest and lack of support for mutual and impartial humanitarian access to Syrian people» among the international community.

First, many people don't have access to health care, whether that's because they have language barriers; lack proper transportation; or can't afford fees, premiums, and copays.

But instead of bringing expansive, overwhelming menus to people in smaller cities, Good Uncle wants to cook and sell just a few items from the world's most iconic restaurants — the two most popular salads from a place like Sweetgreen, for example, or the most popular pizza from Roberta's in Brooklyn — in smaller, non-NFL cities, like New Haven or Syracuse, places that have dense populations but lack easy access to great food.

Pong said that will go some way to helping the 663 million people globally who lack access to uncontaminated water.

The truth is, it's not just people who are considered as «underweight» suffering from lack of access to food.

Washington scored low on the «people» category because of the lack of access to public transit and low rider connectivity.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Their experience overseas broadened their awareness of large populations of people who lack access to good medical care.

«Ideas were going unborn every day, not for lack of heart and hustle, but for lack of access to the right gatekeeper, the person who holds the purse strings.»

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.

Transgender people face numerous health disparities as well as stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to quality care.

Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...

A billion people around the world lack access to health care.

Lack of banking limits access to capital and prevents economic development and business creation as people can't borrow.

The lack of access to credit services forces numerous people to take loans from the shady underworld of illegal lending, the company states.

A comment on one specific point: you claim that one reason people are becoming Christians is that they lack access to information.

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

There is nothing remotely similar for English - speaking Christians, and without it people lacking command of classical languages and access to university libraries have no first - hand knowledge of the past.

«That has had a direct impact on people's capacity to engage in productive employment... limited earnings in the family, and that has resulted in a lack of purchasing power to be able to access the food and access the market.»

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

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

Efforts to eradicate hunger are stalling within the Asia - Pacific, with almost 500 million people in the region lacking access to sufficient food.

The difference tends to follow common patterns on why people don't get health care in good time: lack of education / socioeconomic ability, access to healthcare providers, etc..

And lack of access to healthcare does lead to people being unhealthy.

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.

According to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and to experts, disability is the combination of: 1) the individual's impairment; 2) the barriers in the environment (lack of physical and communications accessibility, negative attitudes, absence of laws and specific policies); and 3) the individual's social role (sex, financial situation, access to political participation, etc).