Water And Sanitation
You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks.
- At least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation.
- Women and girls are responsible for water collection in 80 percent of households without access to water on-premises.
- Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source has increased from 76 percent to 90 percent.
- 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines.
- More than 80 percent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or the sea without any pollution removal.
- Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases.
- Approximately 70 percent of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes, and aquifers is used for irrigation.
Can you suggest any innovative idea to solve these problems causing trouble entire living being..?
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Problem statements
- How to enable potable drinking water supply to every household in villages and towns in Rajasthan state?
- How to preserve the different water bodies such as lakes, rivers, rainwater, etc in Rajasthan state from depletion and pollution?
- How to build and to improve access to safer and hygienic sanitation facilities (such as toilets, washing areas) in houses/communities/schools/public spaces in the state?
