Because 3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities, IDEAS wants to partner with organizations to bring safer cleaning and sanitation access into small villages worldwide.
UN Global Goal: SDG#6 Clean Water and Sanitation
- 4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines
- Water scarcity affects more than 40 per cent of the global population and is projected to rise. Over 1.7 billion people are currently living in river basins where water use exceeds recharge
- More than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or sea without any pollution removal
- Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases
- Approximately 70 per cent of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for irrigation
Example Projects IDEAS would like to continue supporting:
Build wells throughout Rwanda villages
Send LifeStraw’s to small villages throughout Uganda and Nepal
“Clean the World” partnership- soap mobilization
Supporting Solar outlets in for churches in Orlando and Rwanda