Factors Affecting Access to Safe Drinking Water

According to the WHO… Diarrhoea Diarrhoea occurs world-wide and causes 4% of all deaths and 5% of health loss to disability. It is most commonly caused by gastrointestinal infections which kill around 2.2 million people globally each year, mostly children in developing countries. The use of water in hygiene is an important preventive measure but contaminated water is also an important cause of diarrhoea. Cholera and dysentery cause severe, sometimes life threatening forms of diarrhoea. Amongst the poor and especially in developing countries, diarrhoea is a major killer. In 1998, diarrhoea was estimated to have killed 2.2 million people, most of whom were under 5 years of age (WHO, 2000). Each year there are approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhoea worldwide.

Levels of access to safe drinking water

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Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Territory size shows the proportion of all people without reliable access to safe water that live there. In pairs, write a few statements to describe the pattern shown by the map.

In pairs suggest some reasons why some areas lack access to safe drinking water:

Reasons why safe drinking water is essential to development:

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