GENEVA –
Of the world’s population, according to a new UN study, 2.1 billion people have no reliable clean drinking water. Reported that the world health organization (WHO) and the UN children’s agency UNICEF Thursday.
For wastewater, the situation is even worse: only about a quarter of the people worldwide (1.9 billion people) has toilets with connection to sewerage and waste water treatment. In many places, even in schools and hospitals, there is also a lack of water and soap for washing hands.
Many of the 2.1 billion people have to make long walks to clean drinking water. Others drinking unfiltered water from rivers or lakes. About 844 million people lack the even often such unsafe sources of drinking water. And worldwide do 900 million people need, even in the open air, the study shows.
One of the developmental objectives of the UN is that in 2030 all people have access to safe drinking water and toilets.