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Share of the population without access to an improved water source, 2020. Global access to clean water is a significant global challenge that affects the health, well-being, and development of people worldwide. While progress has been made in recent years, millions of people still lack access to safe and clean drinking water sources.
A June 7, 2016 report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that, while most Canadians in water-rich Canada—one of the world's wealthiest nations—have "access to sufficient, affordable, and safe drinking water and adequate sanitation", while "water supplied to many First Nations communities on lands known as reserves is contaminated, hard to ...
[56] 21% of countries' diseases are related to water. [57] In 2008, 88% of the population had access and was using improved drinking water sources. [58] However, "Improved drinking water source" is an ambiguous term, ranging in meaning from fully treated and 24-hour availability to merely being piped through the city and sporadically available ...
95% of the population in Algeria has access to drinking water with a majority of 71% of the population having access to safely managed drinkable water, [75] whilst in sub-Saharan countries, such as Ethiopia, the situation differs as only 13.24% of its population has access to clean drinkable water and Central African Republic where that figure ...
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Analysts say it has the worst water quality in the country. Of the 101 chemicals tested for over five years, 45 were discovered. Of them, 21 were discovered in unhealthy amounts.
Piped water is still the most important source of drinking water (39%) in urban areas, yet boreholes are becoming more important (24%). [3] The WHO (2006) stated that, in 2004, only 16% of people in sub-Saharan Africa had access to drinking water through a household connection (an indoor tap or a tap in the yard).
The Safe Drinking Water Act, which was passed by Congress in 1974, regulates the country’s drinking water supply, focusing on waters that are or could be used for drinking. This act requires ...