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Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of people, an alarming figure that is projected to rise as temperatures do. Although 2.1 billion people have improved water sanitation since 1990, dwindling drinking water supplies are affecting every continent.

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The UN explains: "Clean water is a basic human need, and one that should be easily accessible to all. There is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to poor infrastructure, investment and planning, every year millions of people — most of them children — die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene."

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In 2010, the UN General Assembly recognized access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right, and called for international efforts to help countries to provide safe, clean, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation.

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Water & Sanitation Why Clean Water, Sanitation And Hygiene Are So Important 780 million people do not have regular access to clean water. Share Share Tweet Email. By Joe McCarthy. Aug. 23, 2016 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, or WASH, are issues that affect the health and wellbeing of every person in the world. Everyone needs clean water to drink.

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CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION 6 I. SUMMARY Asia and the Pacific has only 36 percent of the world’s water resources, its per capita water availability is the lowest in the world. More than 80 per cent of the wastewater generated in the region’s developing countries

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us time and again how essential effective water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) management can be in preventing the spread of disease. When communities have access to safe and clean water, they’re better equipped to follow recommended public health tips and contain or prevent an outbreak of a virus.

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2/ 844 million people lack access to clean drinking water. According to a 2017 report by UNICEF and the WHO, 884 million people still lack basic access to clean water. Basic access to safely managed drinking water means that there is at least one source of drinking water located on the premises, available when a person needs it and free from ...

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care, clean water and proper sanitation and basic education – governments are violat-ing the human rights of their citizens. The report begins by outlining the human cost: the lives lost, children out of school, the millions undernourished, and the billions without safe water and sanitation because they lack basic social services.

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IRC;Public Finance for WASH;Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) Financing Swachh Bharat: Finding the money for Clean India. May 17, 2018 Block Panel. Finding Solutions. Browse tools to scan the landscape, monitor and track projects, and evaluate impact. learn more. Case Studies.

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Our World in Data’s SDG Tracker is the first resource where users can track and explore global and country-level progress towards each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals through interactive data visualizations. This resource is kept up-to-date with all of the latest data across all of the 17 Goals.