Clean Water Blog

The lack of clean water affects the lives of a large part of the world's population, especially women and girls. The world now has only twelve years to secure the water supply for two billion people - if the global goals are to be met. Providing the world's population with clean water has been on the UN's agenda since its inception and is one of the global goals for world development that must be met in twelve years. When the global goals were adopted, the way of measuring people's access to clean water changed. Nowadays, it is required that the water that a household uses must be available at the home, that the supply must be constant and that the water must be of sufficiently good quality. According to this definition, 29 percent of the world's population, just over two billion people, lack access to clean water. There are similar requirements when it comes to sanitation. In order for a household to be considered to have serviceable sanitation, the toile