The per-capita water requirement to meet the basic needs for health and hygiene is approximately 76 78 L a day, of which bathing claims the largest share (32%).
The Democrats' goal appears to be to make it all the more difficult for Palestinians — already suffering under U.S.-backed Israeli sieges — to meet even their most basic needs for health care, education, housing, and economic development.
While responding on an emergency basis to this crisis, it is critical to continue intermediate and long-term measures for sustainable development and to equip Nigeriens to meet their children's basic needs for health, nutrition, protection and water/sanitation.
The brutal level of poverty that the participants of this study faced often meant that they were living below the breadline, unable to meet their own and their families' basic needs for health care.
Safe drinking water is a basic need for good health, and it is also a basic right of humans.
A human-rights activist, Alexis Ponce, says that nine prisons in ten lack basics needed for health.
The basic needs for housing, health care and education are not being met for millions.
1. Doyal and Gough argue that human beings have "basic needs" for physical health and "autonomy", which they define as "the ability to make informed choices about what should be done and how to go about doing it" (Doyal and Gough 1991: 53).
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force on 20 November 1989, upholds that childhood is a unique and critical stage of life when all children share the same basic needs for safety, health, nurturance, and dignity.
"Substantial investments are needed over the long term so that the 61 per cent of Nigeriens living on less than one dollar a day might escape the vicious cycle of misery and meet their children's basic needs for nutrition, health and education".
