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According to WHO/UNICEF, 36 per cent of the world's population - 2.5 billion people - do not have access to proper sanitation (toilet and washing), and 768 million people still use unsafe drinking water.
Answer2: In the last five years, some 20 million children have died of preventable waterborne diseases, and hundreds of millions of people continue to live with the daily misery and squalor associated with the lack of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation. (1/2006 Awake magazine on Jehovah's Witnesses official website)
Repeated warnings have come from individuals and organizations about the dangers of water pollution. Still the situation looks bleak. One billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. According to Time magazine, "3.4 million die each year from water related diseases." (11/22/03 Awake on Jehovah's Witnesses official website)
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Why do African people have to drink dirty water?
Africa in many part have dry or xerophytic habitat so have less pure water which lead to the scaricity of water over time and so people of Africa are compel to live on dirty or unhealthy water.
How many people die from drinking dirty water everyday?
People drink dirty water wherever there is not a source of clean/sanitized water available. Third world countries contain the most people susceptible to having to drink dirty water because of the lack of sanitation and poor conditions that they live in.
Why do people drink ground water?
people use to drink river water because in poor country many of them drink .If they don't they will die.But in American many people use to drink fresh water.
How does dirty water kill you?
By drinking dirty water the human body can develop serious illness like :typhoid feverdenguecholeradiphtheriaBy drinking dirty water, your body is taking many germs, bacterias and parasites which is not good for your health.
How many people die from dirty water in Australia?
7 a week
What drink peasants?
They peasants drank beer. they drunk it because the water was dirty and it had many disease. the beer clean out the system and a little of water was in the beer.
How many people in the US dont drink 8 cups of water a day?
I don't drink 8 cups of water a day so their is possible people who don't drink water to.
Can you drink any kind of water?
Actually, no. You can't drink just any kind of water. If you drink dirty water, you will get sick. Salt water can get you sick and may also kill you. What you can drink is fresh water, which you can get from stores. The water may cause expensive in some stores because of the trouble that might had happened to them or just the many processes it took to make the water clean. Hope this helped!
How many people in Canada drink bottled water?
About 30% of the population
How many people don't have clean water to drink worldwide?
4,500,000,000
How many people in the world do have access to clean water?
There is no correct answer because every second people are drinking clean water..But, also every second people are drinking dirty water.
How do you solve the disease that cause by dirty water?
Which one? There are many diseases that can come from dirty water. And not just by consumption. It also varies on your definition of "dirty water."
