Water and sanitation remain some of the most pressing issues that continue to affect human lives in day-to-day situations. Scarcity of water has forced some families to survive on very strict water budgets, thereby compromising their hygienic levels, especially amongst women and young girls.
This has mostly affected women and young girls, especially those living with some form of disability. Water is a basic need for each and every individual on a daily basis with various uses such as drinking, cooking, bathing and washing. Clean water and sanitation have been listed as part of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in an effort to solve this challenge, showing the complexity of the problem that continues to affect livelihoods on a daily basis.
These water shortages have reshaped human lives negatively as some young people can no longer access other basic human needs such as education due to limited sanitation. Clean water and sanitation are issues that require collective efforts of the global citizens to create viable solutions for this challenge.
In other places, people are walking miles to access clean water. The problems associated with proper sanitation also affect those in the overcrowded developing urban areas. We do have countless overpopulated cities across the developing continents. The problems emanate mostly from the varying levels of hygiene amongst the population in a given area, and also due to the fact that some urban areas can no longer support the continuously increasing populations.
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