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\ What’s happening in the world…?
Did you know that…?
• Billions of people in the world still lack access to decent drinking water and
adequate sanitation and hygiene conditions:
• 26% of the world’s citizens have no access to potable water.
• 46% of the world’s citizens do not have safe sanitation systems.
• 29% of the world’s citizens suffer from an absence of basic hygiene
conditions.
• In 1970-2015, the natural water quantity decreased by 35% (3 times the
deforestation rate).
• 129 countries in the world are still struggling with a shortage of clean water.
Links to exceptional enrichment endeavors around the world:
The Tecnovation program for girls around the world showing solutions,
each in her own country, to the water crisis
Restoration of the Parramatta River in Australia
The importance of clean water to villages in Africa
A solution to the water crisis in 7 seconds
\ Relevant organizations for possible cooperation
Municipal Drainage and
The drainage basin
authorities river authorities AGMA and stream center
Clean water and sanitation / P. 28
