It is the moment when children are healthy because they have safe water to drink.
The widespread expansion of water infrastructure has brought clean, safe water to millions of Americans.
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Nearly 1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation.
Now they are using a latrine, using safe water both in drinking and household work, maintaining hygiene.
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Currently, nearly one billion people lack access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation.
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But of course, safe water is impossible without proper sanitation and hygiene, so we launched those efforts shortly afterwards.
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This is partly because elected local officials shift their efforts from expanding the economy to providing public goods, such as safe water.
This is a worrying statistic as it will leave many of the 783 million without access to safe water on the sidelines.
Aid workers have said their priority is to get food, safe water and medicines to more than 200, 000 people in refugee camps.
And it compelled him to found his own philanthropic organization, charity: water, which is focused on providing clean, safe water to poor countries.
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Drawn to the land and the people, he became deeply committed to raising awareness of, and funds for, safe water in the region.
The world will regret having spent so much time debating global warming while the real ecological threat, access to cheap safe water, becomes obvious.
At least some of that region's blights, including starvation and a related lack of sufficient and safe water, are addressable without taxing richer countries.
Nearly 1 billion people suffer needlessly without access to safe water.
Where half the population of rural areas have no safe water.
More public education is needed on the huge cost that lack of access to safe water is having on health, education and economic development in many nations.
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Yet there is a shortage of safe water for drinking and sanitation in many places, not least in the cities to which so many people are now flocking.
In 2007, we expanded the program significantly with a grant from the World Bank with a clean water program that helps connect poor, rural communities to safe water systems.
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As for Fotouhi at his Wayne State presentation, here are 2 questions that were submitted to me from Roger Rayle, the chair of Scio Residents for Safe Water (SRSW).
Later sections show the joy that results from locating safe water sources and the ways that they benefit people through sanitation and health, education, economic ventures, and new agricultural possibilities.
The project is envisioned as a catalyst to ensure financial support and to engage people and organizations in efforts to provide West African communities with sustainable access to safe water.
Compressed air blows away any factory gnorts, the body is inspected for tiny defects and degreased using an environmentally safe water-based solution and surfaces are wiped with tack cloth in between each process to remove dust.
Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.
The Clean Water and the Safe Drinking Water Acts have significantly reduced threats to our environment and our health.
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Improving water resource management, increasing access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and promoting hygiene can improve the quality of life of billions of individuals, as well as reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and cut the incidence of waterborne diseases.
Requiring no other technology or special skills, the filters are simply immersed in untreated water, stirred and then removed, leaving behind safe drinking water.
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The war destroyed major water points and water systems, forcing millions of Liberians to go without access to clean and safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities.
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Exactly one year later, we broke ground on a water and sanitation project in a small rural community called Joezohn with no access to safe drinking water or sanitation facilities.
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One of the most frequently forgotten dimensions of the water crisis is the fact that 900 million people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people do not have basic sanitation.
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