One in four people lack access to safe drinking water. More than 2 billion people cannot simply turn on a tap and obtain clean water. Approximately 3.4 billion people cannot reliably use safe sanitation systems, and about 354 million people lack any toilet and must defecate in the open. People in low-income countries are more than twice as likely as those in richer countries to lack basic drinking water and sanitation services. Daily coping strategies include carrying water to school, guarding stored water, and using bucket toilets that produce foul odors and visible human feces with maggots. These conditions produce health hazards and deepen inequality worldwide.
One in four people lack access to safe drinking water, according the report. That's over 2 billion people who aren't able to simply turn on the tap in their home, workplace or school and get a glass of water they know will be clean. Even more people, 3.4 billion, aren't able to reliably use safe sanitation systems, like toilets with plumbing. About 354 million people worldwide have no toilet available and must defecate in the open, which can create health hazards, according to WHO.
At home, as a younger child I remember refusing to go to the toilet because it wasn't even a drop pit, it was a bucket toilet. All that I can remember is a room that smelled horribly and you could actually see human feces flowing out of the bucket with maggots everywhere. That's my earliest memory of what a sanitation system looke
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