Sentences with phrase «without access to safe drinking water»

Currently, 1.1 billion people are 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.

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.

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 water.

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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 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».

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.

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.