TOO MANY PEOPLE STILL LACK BASIC DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION - UN REPORT

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Date: 8 May 2014 14:00:00 -0400
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TOO MANY PEOPLE STILL LACK BASIC DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION - UN
REPORTNew York, May 8 2014 2:00PMDespite a narrowing disparity in
access to cleaner water and better sanitation between rural and urban
areas, sharp inequalities still persist around the world, says a new
United Nations <"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/jmp-report/en/">report.
According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress
against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation,
more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban
areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation
than rural ones. But this gap is decreasing.
The report, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), notes that in 1990, more than 76 per cent of
people living in urban areas had access to improved sanitation, as
opposed to only 28 per cent in rural ones. By 2012, 80 per cent of
urban dwellers and 47 per cent of rural ones had access to better
sanitation.
In 1990, 95 per cent of people in urban areas could drink improved
water, compared with 62 per cent of people in rural ones. By 2012, 96
per cent of people living in towns and 82 per cent of those in rural
areas had access to improved water.
Despite this progress, sharp geographic, socio-cultural, and economic
inequalities in access to improved drinking water and sanitation
facilities still persist around the world.
"The vast majority of those without improved sanitation are poorer
people living in rural areas. Progress on rural sanitation - where it
has occurred - has primarily benefitted richer people, increasing
inequalities," said Maria Neira, WHO Director for Public Health,
Environmental and Social Determinants of Health.
"Too many people still lack a basic level of drinking water and
sanitation," added Dr. Neira. "The challenge now is to take concrete
steps to accelerate access to disadvantaged groups. An essential first
step is to track better who, when and how people access improved
sanitation and drinking water, so we can focus on those who don't yet
have access to these basic facilities."
In addition to the disparities between urban and rural areas, there
are often also striking differences in access within towns and cities.
People living in low-income, informal or illegal settlements or on the
outskirts of cities or small towns are less likely to have access to
an improved water supply or better sanitation.
"When we fail to provide equal access to improved water sources and
sanitation we are failing the poorest and the most vulnerable children
and their families," said Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Chief of Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene. "If we hope to see children healthier and
better educated, there must be more equitable and fairer access to
improved water and sanitation."
Poor sanitation and contaminated water are linked to transmission of
diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, and
typhoid. In addition, inadequate or absent water and sanitation
services in health care facilities put already vulnerable patients at
additional risk of infection and disease.
Overall, since 1990, almost 2 billion people globally have gained
access to improved sanitation, and 2.3 billion have gained access to
drinking water from improved sources. Some 1.6 billion of these people
have piped water connections in their homes or compounds.</P>May 8
2014 2:00PM
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