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.

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 ...

Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles for water. As the headline says, Gazans are forced to drink dirty, salty water.

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 ...

Residents fed up with dirty water. ... and says people have been getting sick, houses have been left smelling of sulfur and people’s right to clean, drinking water has been taken away.

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 ...