Every year 1.8 million children die from lack of clean water

Each year, 1.8 million children worldwide die from a lack of clean water and poor sanitation, a report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Malawi Water Shortage (Photo: aids.net.au)

According to UNDP, there are currently 1.1 billion people in the world without clean water to use and 2.6 billion people do not have access to appropriate sanitation systems, mainly people in developing countries. development.

In Malawi, for example, there are more than 4 million people - nearly a third of the country's population - without clean water to use, and each year Malawi faces challenges from diarrhea, cholera and other diseases. due to water sources.

In many parts of Sahara, people use less than 10 liters of water a day and two-thirds of them do not have toilets. On the other hand, the average Briton uses 150 liters of water a day, and the American people use 600 liters.

The report also warns that water-borne diseases such as diarrhea can cause more deaths than people who die from HIV / AIDS and malaria combined.

The cause of many people lacking clean water is not necessarily due to water scarcity but due to poverty and the failure of the government in bringing clean water and proper sanitation to the people.

The report calls on governments to ensure that every citizen has at least 20 liters of clean water every day, regardless of rich, regional, gender or racial poverty. The report also requires G8 group countries to take concrete action on this issue, otherwise millions of people in poor countries may die from poverty, poor health.

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