A quarter of humanity lacks safe drinking water

In one suburb of Abidjan, Ivory's Coast's port city and fast growing economic hub, many communities find themselves without clean water amid the United Nation’s World Water Day on Wednesday. Women collect water from streams to meet household requirements.

Water may dribble out of the taps at home late at night if they are lucky and homes are full of plastic containers and buckets to collect it when it does. Local officials blame insufficient electrical power for their pumps in part for the problems.“It’s not easy. Some of our kids get stomach infections.

I’ve got a pregnant sister currently in the house who has an infection, a chronic infection,” Mrs. Ibrahim, a local resident, said while collecting water.According to the UN, one in four people – two billion people worldwide – lack safe drinking water and 1.4 million people die annually of diseases related to poor water, sanitation and hygiene.March 22 is the United Nation’s World Water Day, marked annually since 1993 to raise awareness about access to clean water and sanitation.One of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals is for everyone to have safe water and sanitation by 2030.