Sentence examples for lack of potable from inspiring English sources
The major impediment to development is the lack of potable water.
Then came cholera, which is a disease of poverty — abysmal sanitation and lack of potable water can create an epidemic.
Lack of potable water, decent sanitary conditions, medical services and irrigation systems, as well as the high prevalence of malaria, all contribute to dire conditions.
Named for an abundance of turtles (tortugas in Spanish) and lack of potable surface water, these westernmost and most isolated of the Keys have healthy populations of birds and sea turtles, who see only around 60,000 people a year.
While a full-scale humanitarian crisis has not yet developed, conditions on the ground are extremely dangerous and reports are emerging of children in southern Iraq falling ill because of a lack of potable water, sanitation facilities and medical supplies.
Mr Tsvangirai wanted to avoid being hanged or thrown into Chikurubi jail in Harare, where violence, malnutrition, AIDS and the lack of potable water hurry prisoners to an early grave.
People living in rural areas can be characterized as vulnerable populations, predisposed to poor health outcomes because of lack of sanitation (potable water, sewage and garbage disposal) and limited access to preventive health care [ 6].
Ms. Narain said she hoped that the debate would also raise awareness of India's lack of standards for potable water, and the absence of a pesticide policy in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
Of course, life goes on there (with the usual lack of electricity and potable water), but as the news shows, to an angry symphony of suicide bombers and targeted killings.
President Clinton said that such programs provide an effective solution where a lack of access to potable drinking water leads to 80percentt of the diseases from which Rwandans suffer.
Early in the second half of the 19th century, Brussels saw numerous dry periods, floods and a cholera epidemic, caused as much by the river itself as by the poverty and the lack of hygiene and potable water in the lower city.
