Access to clean and safe water is a prime example of a public health intervention with long-lasting effects on a long list of health outcomes, including among others the protection against infectious ...

Promoting good hygiene is also essential, especially during a pandemic. Oxfam partners train community leaders to encourage handwashing at critical moments. We provide hygiene kits with soap, water ...

Twelve years after California became the first state in the nation to declare a “human right to water,” achieving this basic societal goal of securing clean water for all 39 million state ...

In America, that right is enshrined in the Clean Water Act of 1972, which defines how the EPA regulates pollutants in U.S. waters, and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, which establishes ...

Community Pure Water, an organization that works in rural communities to make safe drinking water affordable and accessible throughout the country, installed the water purification centers. The ...

Access to Safe Water: A Paradox in Developed Nations. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development , 2013; 55 (4): 24 DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2013.803886 Cite This Page : ...

Puerto Rico still doesn't have clean, safe water. ... The LifeStraw Community, for example, can filter up to 100,000 liters of water and serve 75 to 100 people per day.

Yet access to clean water is becoming an increasingly prominent global challenge, and over 5 billion people are forecasted to experience water scarcity by 2050.

Flint is an example of a man-made disaster. ... Every human being needs safe, clean water to live healthy lives. Linda Goler Blount is president and CEO of Black Women’s Health Imperative.

California has officially recognized this human right to water for 12 years when then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the enabling legislation.“Every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable ...