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Nearly a billion children struggling to access water across the world
A woman refills plastic bottles with water in a well in Kivsharivka, Ukraine, Sunday, October 16, 2022
NEARLY a billion children across the world struggle to access water, according to a damning new report.
The KidsRights Index, based on figures supplied by UN agencies, said in a new report published on Wednesday that 920 million children across the globe are affected by water scarcity.
The Dutch non-governmental agency said diseases such as malaria and dengue affect around one in four children, around 600m people.
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