180 Million People Lack Clean Water Due to Conflict: UNICEF.
In countries affected by conflict, violence and instability, more than 180 million people are deprived of access to clean water, the United Nations Children’s Fund has announced as World Water Week begins.
Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF’s global chief of water, sanitation and hygiene, stated, “Children’s access to safe water and sanitation, especially in conflicts and emergencies, is a right, not a privilege," adding, "In countries beset by violence, displacement, conflict and instability, children’s most basic means of survival – water – must be a priority.” Wijesekera also emphasized, “In far too many cases, water and sanitation systems have been attacked, damaged or left in disrepair to the point of collapse.
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The Saudi-led war of aggression – financed by the United States and the United Kingdom – has rendered the country’s water supply virtually unusable in the past two years.
As a result, Yemeni children comprise more than 53 percent of the over half a million cases of suspected cholera and acute watery diarrhea, according to UNICEF.
Well over seven years of civil war in Syria has resulted in approximately 15 million people – 6.4 percent children – lacking safe water.
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