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2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street 2015 Many people in this category probably do have safe drinking water — at least at its initial source point — but it’s either hard to verify as contamination-free, or it’s far from home and takes a long time to collect. It might be safe when you collect it, but once you’ve trekked an hour back and left it sitting unrefrigerated in the heat for the rest of the day, there’s no guarantee that it’s free of pathogens when you drink it the next morning. I would also like to thank Ike Saunders, Daniel Bachler, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Edouard Mathieu, Joe Hasell, Fiona Spooner, Saloni Dattani, and Simon van Teutem for comments and feedback on this work.
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