WHO: Drinking-Water and Sanitation
A recent report from the World Health Organization about drinking-water and sanitation says:
Safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene are fundamental to health, survival, growth and development. However, these basic necessities are still a luxury for many of the world’s poor people.
Over 1.1 billion of our fellow citizens do not use drinking water from improved sources, while 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
Safe drinking water and basic sanitation are so obviously essential to health that they risk being taken for granted.
Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, kills at least 1.6 million children under the age of five years — more than eight times the number of people who died in the Asian tsunami of 2004.
2.6 billion people, more than 40% of the world population, do not use a toilet, but defecate in the open or in unsanitary places.
aquasana
January 31st, 2007 at 6:14 am #
Well said !
even thousands od people living in the poor region does not have sufficient water to drink. why not we people paerticipate in jargon of water needs among these people.