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More than half of the world's population doesn’t have clean water at home.
Leaky pipes, aging infrastructure, and chemical contamination limit access to safe water in even the wealthiest countries.
Sufficient access to clean, reliable, affordable drinking water is a human right.
Two-thirds of people living in low- and middle-income countries had no household access to safe drinking water in 2020 .
Fecal contamination, or high levels of E. coli, was the biggest problem for nearly half of the population studied.
Greenwood ’s team found that environmental factors, like tree density and how much rainfall changes with the seasons, were another major predictor of drinking water quality.
Greenwood hopes to mobilize policymakers “towards improving monitoring of water quality globally, particularly in regions where there are current data gaps,” he says.
Greenwood hopes that by demonstrating what a big effect accounting for geospatial information has on water safety estimates, their team can mobilize policymakers.
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