In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 2 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water. Roughly a quarter of the world ...

The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.

UN agencies such as the World Health Organisation have previously used a figure of about two billion people lacking clean water.. But the new study uses Earth observation data and Unicef surveys ...

The study estimates that 55% of the global population currently lives in areas that experience a lack of clean water in at least one month per year. "By the end of the century, this may be as high ...

The Global Commission on the Economics of Water estimates that a lack of clean water due to climate change and the chronic mismanagement of land could cut global economic growth by 8% on average ...

Across the globe, more than 703 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water, the charity estimates, noting that as a last resort, many consume water from swamps, ponds, streams and ...

It is unacceptable that any residents of the sixth largest economy in the world can’t drink the water from their kitchen faucets, and even more so for low-income and less fortunate Californians.

Finding alternative water sources is costly. If that wasn’t enough, breweries are coping with reduced profits and workforce uncertainties in Helene’s aftermath.

Gazans already enduring health issues, lack of clean water now face hazardous rubble ... according to the World Health Organization. Almost two-thirds of health clinics aren’t open.