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“More than 1,000 children under five die every day from diseases caused by impure water, lack of sanitation and poor hygiene,” UNICEF said in New York on Monday. According to a new analysis by the organization, 190 million children in ten African countries are at risk.
The situation is most serious in the West and Central African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Somalia. Many of these countries suffer from instability and armed conflict, making it even more difficult for children to access clean water and sanitation.
Two billion people without clean water
March 22 is World Water Day. The UN water conference in New York also starts on this day. The aim is to investigate to what extent internationally agreed goals, including the UN sustainability goal of access to clean water for all people by 2030, can be achieved. Two billion people worldwide – one in four people – do not have clean water.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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