"water poverty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the lack of access to sufficient, safe, and affordable water worldwide. For example, "The African country is suffering from severe water poverty due to extensive deforestation."
Water poverty is the main reason for Haiti's abysmal illness and early mortality rates.
"There is perverse irony when it comes to water poverty," Northover said.
He demonstrates his success stories through videos and talks, telling people how rainwater can end water poverty.
End Water Poverty is a global civil society coalition campaigning to end the water and sanitation crisis.
Speaking to The Independent, University of Lancaster lecturer and virologist Dr Derek Gatherer said stagnant water, poverty and urban design played a part in transmission.
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But they also use published statistics to compile water-poverty indices for whole countries.
A new water-poverty index, developed by Britain's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the World Water Council, grades countries according to their water resources, access, use and environmental impact.
There are always crises, and Islamic terrorism will settle into place, alongside recent wars, climate change, the politics of international trade, shortages of land and fresh water, hunger, poverty, and the rest.
(Of course, breast-fed babies do fare better in less developed areas, where formula may be prepared with contaminated water or poverty prompts mothers to skimp on its use).
Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, is a fiercely tribal society whose 23 million people are facing catastrophic depletion of oil and water resources, poverty and spiralling population growth, as well as chronic official corruption and mismanagement.
