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1 In 4 People Lack Access To Safe Drinking Water: UN

The report found that in most countries with available data, women and girls were chiefly responsible for water collection (Credit: AFP)

More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere near quickly enough.

The UN's health and children's agencies said a full one in four people globally were without access to safely-managed drinking water last year, with over 100 million people remaining reliant on drinking surface water -- for example from rivers, ponds and canals.

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