Blog #1- Clean Water and Sanitation: Nigeria
Clean Water and Sanitation: Nigeria For this project, I will be focusing on clean water and sanitation (Goal 6). Many countries do not have access to clean water and sanitation which can be detrimental to the health of individuals. I wanted to focus on this topic because many countries face this issue and nothing has not been solved or overlooked. For instance, “ one in three people do not have access to safe drinking water, two out of five people do not have basic hand-washing facility with soap and water, and more than 673 million people still practice open defecation” (United Nations, n.d). In other words, the majority of the world’s population is facing this issue. Nigeria is one of many countries that has contaminated drinking water and poor sanitation conditions which contributes to the increased vulnerability to water-borne diseases. Also, it remains a major contributing factor to high mortality rates among children under the age of five. According to UNICEF, it mentions t...