Uganda Half of the population in Uganda cannot gather safe drinking water in under 30 minutes. Women in Uganda carry water home from a contaminated source. Progress While the divide between the rich and the poor has stayed relatively the same, the country has seen humble improvements in basic water access about 7 percent growth between and Mozambique Just under 45 percent of the country of Mozambique is without basic access to water.
Progress In , only about 30 percent of the country had basic access to safe water. United Republic of Tanzania About 43 percent of Tanzania lacks basic access to safe drinking water. Progress While only 35 percent of the country had basic access to water in , that number grew to 57 percent in A Tanzanian girl carries water home.
Progress More people than ever before are drinking safe water in Somalia today. Pakistan Unlike other countries without clean water, the challenge in Pakistan is not water access but hand washing.
Progress In Pakistan, open defecation has fallen from 31 to 10 percent between and Nigeria In Nigeria , 71 percent of the population has at least basic access to safe drinking water. Progress Since , the country has progressed from just 38 percent of the population with basic water access to 51 , crossing into the majority. Choose a Village. Change a Life. Help Serve People. Get This Project Started. Entire Project.
GPS: 1. Status: Water Flowing. Project Completed on May 14, GPS: 0. Compare this with death rates across high-income countries: across Europe rates are below 0. The issue of unsafe sanitation is therefore one which is largely limited to low and lower-middle income countries. We see this relationship clearly when we plot death rates versus income, as shown here.
There is a strong negative relationship: death rates decline as countries get richer. SDG Target 6. Where are we today? One-in-four people do not have access to safe drinking water. In the chart we see the breakdown of drinking water access globally, and across regions and income groups.
We see that in countries at the lowest incomes, less than one-third of the population have safe water. Most live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Are we making progress? The world has made progress in the last five years. Unfortunately, this has been very slow. This is obviously far too slow to reach universal access by In the map shown we see the share of people across the world that have access to safe drinking water.
In the map shown we see the number of people across the world that do not have access to safe drinking water. But improved drinking water technologies are more likely than those characterized as unimproved to provide safe drinking water and to prevent contact with human excreta. Special focus on inequalities external icon. Safer water, better health: costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health. World Health Organization, Geneva.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing the slowest rate of progress in the world. Only 54 per cent of people used safe drinking water, and only 25 per cent in fragile contexts. Emerging data on menstrual health show that, in many countries, a significant proportion of women and girls are unable to meet menstrual health needs, with significant disparities in particular among vulnerable groups, such as the poor and those with disabilities.
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