"We don't have clean drinking water in some areas of our district, " Mr. Vidak says.
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Neglect of infrastructure means that almost 10% of the population lacks access to clean drinking water.
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The issue is that billions of us do not have access to clean drinking water.
Swach hopes to bridge this gap between technology and the basic human need of clean drinking water.
Many of Guatemala's rural indigenous communities lack infrastructure basics such as clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity.
His Charity: water has brought clean drinking water to over 1 million people in the 3rd world.
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Its market potential is also derived from its ability to produce clean drinking water and renewable energy.
That could provide a lifetime of clean drinking water to 28, 000 people in developing countries, according to the NGO.
The cruise capital may have good air quality, clean drinking water and vast green spaces, but it doesn't have many openings.
In 2012, we built 57 wells that deliver clean drinking water to our customers in the most remote regions of the country.
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When wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, droughts and other calamities destroy access to clean drinking water, the human consequences are almost immediate and enormous.
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Cure HIV perhaps or provide clean drinking water to the world.
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Among all of China's 660-odd cities, only one small city of 200, 000, Lianyuan in Hunan Province, can claim to provide clean drinking water straight from the tap.
Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
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Part of the benefit, everyone agrees, is that there are huge benefits to not being dirt-poor: clean drinking water, good medical care and safe housing, to name a few.
In an interview with the BBC to mark the 25th anniversary of the disaster, he told me that the communities around the plant had been supplied with clean drinking water.
"Cholera can be treated quickly and people can get better quickly but the challenge is ensuring they don't get re-infected and clean drinking water needs to be available, " he said.
There's no electricity and very little clean drinking water.
The project involved the installation of a water purification system capable of producing up to 20, 000 liters of drinking water per day and currently supplies over 600 residents with clean drinking water.
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"Mukhtar played an important role in providing vulnerable communities with access to clean drinking water and sanitation in areas where the risk of water-based diseases is high, " UNICEF Deputy Representative Hannan Sulieman said.
That's why thousands of American personnel -- civilian and military -- are on the scene working to distribute clean drinking water and food and medicine, and thousands of tons of emergency food supplies are arriving every day.
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Pushing other essential infrastructure, such as clean drinking water, sewer systems and mass transportation, gets caught in a similar chicken-and-egg syndrome as the residents desperately want to join the grid but gatos of all kinds undermine the economics of the arrangement.
Over the last two decades an incredible two billion people have gained access to clean drinking water for the first time, so it's not such a pipe dream to argue that we should reach the remaining 783 million by this date.
You can see for yourself, in WaterAid's new multi-media piece, the transformative impact that providing clean drinking water can have, by going on a virtual visit to the village of Alakamisy, a remote rural area of Madagascar that benefited from a WaterAid project in 2010.
One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
Communities around the world are affected by the manufacturing of these products, not only because they are growing ever fatter as a result of so much sugar in their lives, but also because the use of water for sugar drinks means communities often go without clean drinking water (which Coke and other companies then sells to them as bottled water).
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women states in Article 14, para 2(h) that women have a right to adequate living conditions, including access to water, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child maintains in its article 24, para. 2 (c) that all children have a right to the highest attainable standard of health through the provision of adequate clean drinking water.
Last summer, we started over 100 clean water and drinking water projects nationwide.
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Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
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