At that time, CKDu was a major public health issue in Sri Lanka, with over 40,000 people suffering from it since the mid-1990s, statistics showed. In 2016, then Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena called the disease a "national disaster" that affected 20,828 patients and caused 5,0...
A report says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation. The U.N.
The descriptive analysis is carried out using household-level datasets from 19 Demographic and Health Surveys, supplemented by country-level statistics. The results of the analysis suggest that, regardless of the indicators of urbanisation used, human capital has a significant positive influence on the...
Peru is one of the countries with the lowest percentage of population with access to safe drinking water in the Latin American region. This study aimed to describe and estimate, according to city size, socioeconomic inequalities in access to safe drinking water in Peruvian households from 2008 to...
Despite these seemingly ___ statistics, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has also conducted a series of ___ tests on municipal (市政的) water supplies as well as bottled water, says,“In the short term, if you are an adult with no special health ___ , and you are...
These alarming water pollution statistics can be traced back to sources including manufacturing emissions, poorly treated sewage, industrial spills, and agricultural runoff. With 70 percent of China’s population depending on groundwater for their drinking supply, these startling numbers present a very ...
Is Tap Water Better than Bottled Water? So, the next question is…why don’t I just get rid of all this plastic bottled water nonsense and just use tap water? Since statistics show 40% of the water in bottled water is from the tap anyway… then why not?
an intersectoral approach; making education free; making schools safe; supplying clean water and latrines and separate toilet facilities for boys and girls; eradicating gender bias from textbooks and materials; training teachers in gender sensitivity; and gathering gender-specific education statistics. ...
For example, statistics from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) show that most landfills leak15. Further research has shown that 0.1%−0.4% of groundwater is polluted by landfills and industrial reservoirs. Landfill leakage may be even worse in developing countries because ...