Millions of people around the world still don’t have secure access to drinking water.
According to the most recent statistics compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), four out of every 10 Salomon Islanders don’t have secure access to clean drinking water. This makes the Salomon Islands a member of the small group of countries in which the drinking water situation has not improved, but rather worsened, in the past few years.
Around the world, 89 percent of the population has access to clean water.
Despite the recent setbacks seen in some island nations, the overall situation is improving year after year.
Whereas at least two-thirds of urban populations have access to clean water, that number can plunge to less than a third in rural areas, where most of the population lives.
Worldwide, 95 percent of city dwellers have access to clean water while that number is only 80 percent for those living in rural areas.