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A severe shortage of water in homes facing two out of five international people is undermining efforts to involve the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the World Health Organization, common and thorough hand washing is one of the most effective measures to restrict the spread of the virus, as the main routes of transmission are droplets and direct contact. However, another 3 billion people do not have to have running water and soap at home, and four billion suffer severe water shortages for at least a month a year, the UN-Water organization said.
“This is a terrible scenario for others who do not have access to safe water and sanitation,” UN Water President Gilbert F. Houngbo said in an interview. “Chronic sub-investment has left billions of people vulnerable and we are now seeing the consequences.”
Years of deferred investment in clean water and sanitation now put everyone at risk as the virus spreads to emerging and evolved countries, generating a cycle of infection and reinfection.
According to the UN, the world will have to spend $6.7 trillion on water infrastructure until 2030, not only for urgent sanitation needs, but also to address longer-term pandemic problems, such as providing greater irrigation to avoid a potential food crisis, Houngbo said. . Training
Some corporations have intervened to propose answers to the most pressing problems. Japan’s Lixil Group Corp., which owns brands such as American Standard and Grohe, has worked with UNICEF and other partners to create an out-of-network hand-washing device that requires only a small amount of water in a bottle. For $1 million, it will manufacture 500,000 games in India to serve another 2.5 million people before starting retail sales.
It is a quick and short-term reaction to combating the pandemic, but more sustainable investments are needed, such as installing running water in more homes, said Clarissa Brocklehurst, university member of the University of North Carolina Water Institute and former water specialist, head of sanitation and hygiene at Unicef.
The lack of water and fundamental sanitation is another example of the fatal effects of inequality highlighted through the pandemic. The effects of poor water control are felt disproportionately through the poor, who are more likely to rely on dryland agriculture as food and are exposed to infected water and insufficient sanitation, the World Bank said.
Other disadvantaged people in cities are especially vulnerable because they live in densely populated spaces where social distance is complicated, especially if they have to share a source of percentage water. Transmission in the Americas has been more difficult to engage in poor urban spaces with limited access to water, sanitation and public conditioning services, said Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization.
Up to 5.7 billion more people can live in spaces where water is scarce for at least one month a year until 2050, creating an unprecedented water festival, said UN Houngbo. According to one estimate, the degree of global warming will spread about 7% of the world’s population to a relief in renewable water resources of at least 20%.
“Washing hands for so long has been what I would call infantilized,” Brocklehurst said. “Suddenly it’s a matter of life and death and adults should be informed that they wash their hands.”
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