But one billion people – 90 percent of them living in rural areas – “continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, with no dignity or privacy”, the U.N. study said.

Her story is far from unique. Globally 1 in 10 people are without safe drinking water, while over a third of the planet (36%) goes without basic sanitation.In Sub-Saharan Africa the situation is ...

One mid-level EPA regulator was skeptical of change actually occurring, telling the Times, "The same people who told us to ignore Safe Drinking Water Act violations are still running the divisions.

Despite 150 years of acceptance of the healthful effects of clean water, an estimated 1.1 billion people still lack access to it, and 2.6 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation.

In Chile, more than 250,000 people were exposed to arsenic-contaminated water for 12 years until a water treatment plant was installed. Even 40 years later, scientists found lung and bladder ...

EPA’s Dirty Water Rule also threatens tribes and first nations that consume a much larger proportion of fish in their diet. Fish accumulate pollutants and toxic chemicals, which are passed on to ...

Displaced people fetch drinking water in the yard of an UNRWA school in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on October 20, 2023. - Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images For people in Gaza, there is no escape as ...