As per United Nations report released in June this year the world is not on the right track to fulfill UN goals to bring safe water and sanitation to everyone by 2030 and by 2050, the reports further says, half the world’s population may no longer have safe water.
Every drop of water is precocious as it is essential for drinking, growing food, producing energy and for other aspects of life. But more than 2 billion of world’s 7.6 billion populations lack clean drinking water at home.
The two main factors that creates water shortage problem are population growth and climate change.
For irrigating agricultural crops, raising livestock and farming aquatic organism like fishes and plants, most of the world’s freshwater are being used. On the other side as the global population rises, the demand for agricultural products increases for more diets, causing serious clean water shortage.
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Top ten countries with lowest access to clean water:
- Indian
- Ethiopia
- Nigeria
- China
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Indonesia
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Pakistan
- Kenya
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