Sentences with phrase «without access to drinking water»

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you can start a really vigorous gluten free starter culture without having to open a whole packet of yeast for just a few grains by using a tablespoon or so of a fermented drink — kombucha, water kefir (Whole Foods carries a coconut water kefir that is very active) or if you have access to real unpasteurized sauerkraut you could probably use some of the liquid.

While breastfeeding provides a safe and nutritious food for infants in countries without reliable access to clean drinking water, the risk associated with formula feeding decreases exponentially in countries where women have easy access to regulated infant formula, properly cleaned bottles, and safe drinking water.

«The situation in Hoosick Falls is far from resolved, and those with private wells have been without consistent access to clean drinking water for months,» McLaughlin wrote.

The Democrat said conditions on the island remain «deplorable» and noted that 80 percent of residents remain without power and almost a third have no access to clean drinking water more than a month after Hurricane Maria hit.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering against its objective, with criticism largely levelled at Target 7.C, which aimed to «halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation».

Currently, 750 million people are without access to sufficiently clean drinking water.

I am often consumed with the fact that there are, quite literally, millions (if not billions) of people in the world living in poverty without access to basic needs like clean drinking water, food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, etc..

The result of this is that food bowls, litter boxes, water sources and resting places need to be distributed throughout the house in a way that enables all of the cats to access the appropriate resource without running the gauntlet of another cat if they should need to eat, rest, drink or use the litter box at the same time.

• It also happens on airplanes, and to dogs confined outside without access to reliable shade and drinking water.

The Clean Water Act in the United States, 40 years old last month, has spurred substantial progress and the world has, three years ahead of schedule, met a 2015 Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking wWater Act in the United States, 40 years old last month, has spurred substantial progress and the world has, three years ahead of schedule, met a 2015 Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking waterwater.

There are games like this one that a student invented to help her and her peers to spend less time on their phones as well as this app developed by the UNICEF Tap Project that donates money to provide water for a child without access to clean drinking water for every ten minutes you don't touch your phone.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

Global water crises — from drought in the world's most productive farmlands to the hundreds of millions of peoples without access to safe drinking water — are among the biggest threats facing the planet over the next decade.

Currently, 1.1 billion people are without access to safe drinking water.

About 15 million people in Africa are without adequate access to drinking water, and Emily Pilloton is doing something about it.

We applaud this effort inspired by the «ambitious» Millenium Development Goal of «reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water» by the year 2015.

Drinking water, agriculture, sanitation and sustainable industry — none are possible without access to water and all are required to lift regions out of poverty.

She has produced a graphic to explain how septic tanks function, created an animation of how manure threatens water supplies, written how genetic engineering can remove the horns of cattle and reported how a couple coped without access to a safe supply of drinking water.

The lack of rain and unseasonably high temperatures has also left 16 million people without easy access to drinking water.