We live in a world where more than two billion people have no access to water with more than a billion people who live in slums and informal settlements. People are forced to queue at a communal water pump to get water for the family
More than four billion have no access to sanitation. Many cities lack effective sewer sanitation plants.
And more than three billion have no access to hand-washing with water and soap. Washing hands frequently with both water and soap, is inaccessible to 40 percent of the world population.
1.8 billion people use or work in healthcare facilities without basic water services. One in five respiratory infections in Covid cases can beprevented, diarrhoea episodes reduced by nearly half, as doctors are better able to fight antimicrobial resistance.
In the least developed countries, nearly 75 percent of people have no access to these basic needs.
43 percent of schools have no facilities for hand-washing with soap
Those who are most at risk of getting very sick from COVID-19 are largely the same people who lack secure jobs, housing, land, education, access to healthcare and water, sanitation and hygiene.
Imagine COVID-19 in a world with water and sanitation for all | Coronavirus pandemic | Al Jazeera
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