This is the total number of people who suffer from various diseases that the world Health Organization attributes to unsafe drinking supplies.
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United Nations (UN) officials had expected that this week these avoidable deaths would become the focus of the world’s news agencies, through the report of the 3rd World Water Forum in Japan.
If action isn’t taken, as many as 7 million people in 60 countries could face water shortage by 2050.
In large part, the answer lies in the development and large-scale application of relatively simple technologies.
However, two biggest components of the global water shortage are the pollution of drinking supplies with human waste, and the huge waste of water that is mainly in some agricultural practices.