Read “The Next Billion’s” recent article on the opportunities solar presents for rural clinics in low and middle income countries. An important missing link are off-grid appropriate appliances. Bringing it all together can save lives and improve quality of care… imagine assisting a woman to give birth with no light!
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One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP).
A new app to map and monitor the world’s freshwater supply
Water affects all of us, no matter where we live. Drought harms everyone, from farmers in the western United States dealing with long-term drought, to people in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan suffering debilitating health consequences from the Aral Sea draining, to millions of people displaced by floods in Kerala, India. About four billion people, or almost two-thirds of the world’s population, experience severe water scarcity at least one month of the year.