domingo, 25 de marzo de 2012

In 10 years 2 billion people have gained access to water

The quantity of people has been doubled from the 1990´s
The proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water source has been reduced by half. The last report made by the UNICEF: “Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation” in 2012 ratifies that since the 90´s more than two million people have gained access to water.
Nevertheless big disparities still exist. In Latin America, the Caribbean and Northern Africa the coverage of improved water is 90 per cent, while in sub-Saharan Africa the quantity of people without access to improved water supply is still equal to the 61 per cent. Big differences between rich and poor, rural and urban and geographic areas are still part of the water access and sanitation reality. While the 19 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and the 39 in Oceania population use surface water for drinking and cooking, India and China have represented more than the half of the people who have gained access to water from the 90´s until now.
China, India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Congo, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya: Only ten countries in the world have the two thirds of the global population without access to an improved drinking water source. Piped water is enjoyed by the 80 per cent of the urban population, however only 29 per cent of rural population have access to piped water. Most people without an improved drinking water source live in rural areas, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa which has the lowest drinking water coverage in the world.
780 million people don’t have access to water. Even the UN General Assembly recognized in 2010 water and sanitation as a human right, some regions, especially poor and rural places still don’t have access to water and sanitation. 780 million people, more than one tenth of the global population, are still without access to improved sources of drinking water while at the same time, more than 2.5 billion don’t have access to improved sanitation.
Sanitation has increased from 49 percent in 1990 to 63 per cent in 2010. However, even it has improved in almost every developing region, in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia the sanitation coverage is below 50 per cent. Even, four out of ten people who have gained access to improve sanitation since the 90´s live in China or India, more than half of the 2.5 billion people without sanitation still live there.
Even big and important achievements have been done, in accordance with the quantity of people with access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, there is still much work to be do in order to decrease and eradicate differences between developed and developing countries, poor and rich people, rural and urban geographical areas looking for a fairer and more equalitarian world.

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