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While Northern Africa has 92% safe water coverage, Sub-Saharan Africa remains at a low 60% of coverage – leaving 40% of the 783 million people in that region without access to clean drinking water. [2] Some of these differences in clean water availability can be attributed to Africa's extreme climates.
In sub-Saharan Africa access to water supply and sanitation has improved, but the region lags behind all other developing regions: access to safe drinking water had increased from 49% in 1990 to 60% in 2008, while in the same time span access to improved sanitation had only risen from 28% to 31%.
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.
The metropolis of nearly 22 million people is facing a severe water crisis ... It won’t be the same as when Cape Town in South Africa came ... “There is a clear unequal access to water in the ...
The Water Project has funded or completed over 2,500 projects and 1,500 water sources that have helped over 569,000 people improve their access to clean water and sanitation. [51] These projects focus heavily on teaching proper sanitation and hygiene practices, as well as improving water facilities by drilling boreholes, updating well ...
The DRC has one of the lowest rates of access to clean drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world. Only 46 percent of the population had access to an improved drinking water source in 2012. [1] Furthermore, the sanitation coverage was estimated at only 31 percent in 2012. [2]
[16] Although 9 percent of the global population lacks access to water, there are "regions particularly delayed, such as Sub-Saharan Africa". [16] The UN further emphasizes that "about 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water- and sanitation-related diseases."
Water is Earth’s most essential resource, yet access to it has been historically elusive for many Black and brown communities The post Why is access to clean, safe water such a problem in ...