Water is Life also creates educational campaigns, and even a VR game, to teach kids why and how they should clean or filter water before they drink from a potentially unsafe source.
Yet all too often, people pass even the simplest water pumps and walk on to an unsafe water source nearby.
In extreme cases, customers may avoid aesthetically unacceptable but otherwise safe drinking water in favour of more pleasant but potentially unsafe source (WHO 2011).
Lack of water and sanitation causes silent emergency NEW YORK/GENEVA, 26 August 2004 - More than 2.6 billion people – over 40 per cent of the world's population – do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water, warns a major report released today by WHO (the World Health Organization) and UNICEF.
Sub-Saharan Africa is lagging far behind the rest of the developing world in access to clean water, with more than 4 out of 10 people still relying on rivers, ponds or other unsafe sources of drinking water, according to a United Nations report issued Thursday.
A3 Clean Water Problems in Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is lagging far behind the rest of the developing world in access to clean water, with more than 4 out of 10 people still relying on rivers, ponds or other unsafe sources of drinking water, according to a United Nations report.
In rural poor households, children are 8.7 times more likely to drink from unsafe sources of water that are open or located a half hour's round trip from their home than children who live in urban households, and 6% of women and girls spend time collecting water – up to five or six hours daily in some cases.
This was despite a ministry of health campaign using radio, television and pamphlets warning of unsafe sources [ 40].
The worldwide water scarcity, especially in the developing countries and arid regions, forces people to rely on unsafe sources of drinking water.
