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Report on unsafe drinking water
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- The report named, Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2019 update, was released recently by the WHO.
- Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
- It caused the death of at least 1.4 million people and 74 million disability-adjusted life years (DALY) in 2019.
- Globally, 771 million people lack access to safe water and 1.7 billion people don’t have a toilet.
- Unsafe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) were responsible for 395,000 deaths among children under five years of age.
- This includes 273,000 deaths from diarrhoea and 112,000 deaths from acute respiratory infections.
- Soil-transmitted helminthiases affect an estimated 1.5 billion people or 24 per cent of the world’s population.
- Diarrhoeal diseases accounted for the majority of the attributable burden with more than a million deaths and 55 million DALYs.
- Acute respiratory infections identified as the second-largest contributor, with 356,000 deaths and 17 million DALYs.
- 10 per cent of the burden of undernutrition — Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) representing a total of 8,000 deaths and 825,000 DALYs in this age group.
- Almost 384,000 diarrhoea deaths and 20 million DALYs in 2019.
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