Billions of people live with out access to safe drinking water and sanitation according to UN

Описание: (22 Mar 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome - 22 March 2024
1. Window display outside Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters on World Water Day
2. Exterior of FAO headquarters with banners hanging
3. Banner reading (English): “Ask yourself, water you doing?”
4. Screen displaying World Water Day UN report’s cover with sign reading (English): “Water for Peace”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Lifeng, Director of FAO’s Land and Water Division:
“I think the situation is really challenging and according to this report, we still have 2 billion people don't have access to safe drinking water. Then from a sanitation perspective, we have 3.5 billion people don't have access to safe sanitation.”
6. Window display outside of the headquarters
7. Hanging banner reading (English): “Refresh your idea about water”
8. Picture on window of woman wrapped by water
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Lifeng, Director of FAO’s Land and Water Division:
“(We) say without water, there's no life. Then without the water, there's no food. So water is the core, is the indispensable natural resources for sustainable development, for agriculture, for many different economic sectors.”
10. Exterior of FAO headquarters
11. Flags outside FAO headquarters
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Lifeng, Director of FAO’s Land and Water Division:
“Noted that Zimbabwe has been facing continuously drought since last year, and it certainly is a part of the global climate system because of the impact of El Nino. So Zimbabwe at the moment is really facing a heat challenge. And then there's a worry about the crop failure. There's a worry about more than two millions of people potentially will be facing hunger in the country.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mangwe, Zimbabwe - 21 March 2024
13. Pan of woman walking to go collect water from well
14. Various of woman drawing water from well
15. Woman looking at dried up maize plants in field
16. Wide of dry maize
17. Close of corn
18. Wide of man walking through field of maize
STORYLINE:
As many as 2.2 billion people still live without access to safe drinking water and 3.5 billion lack access to decent sanitation, according to a new United Nations report published on World Water Day.

“I think the situation is really challenging,” said Li Lifeng, Director of FAO’s Land and Water Division in Rome.

The UN report “Water for prosperity and peace” highlights that tensions over water are exacerbating conflicts worldwide.

Among the countries most affected by water scarcity is Zimbabwe, which “has been facing drought since last year,” according to Lifeng.

He said there was a concerns about crop failure with more than two million in Zimbabwe potentially facing hunger.

Like some of its southern African neighbors, Zimbabwe is battling a devastating drought that aid agencies blame on El Niño and climate change.

AP video Silvia Stellacci and Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

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