User:Abcquantumle/Water scarcity in Africa

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Tanzania's population is 65.6 million, 75% of which live in informal communities, remain poor, and will need adequate water systems annually by 2030. Water is an essential resource for survival; without access to water, sickness and death occur, and Tanzania faces substantial challenges. Specifically, 13.8% of urban and  52.2 % of rural provinces depend on contaminated water sources (public pipes, wells, springs, rainwater, harvested, water tanks, and boreholes) for daily use (cooking, cleaning, bathing, and drinking) (Kagoye et al., 2024). With 25% of the inhabitants live in formal settlements, rendering the lives of that 75% in informal city settlements significantly higher the deprivation from participation, access, protection, and services enumerated in the country’s constitution, facets under Articles 1 and 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Additionally, gastrointestinal pathogens, from the lack of clean water for washing hands before food preparation,  have become a significant disease and environmental vector that leads to fecal contamination and diarrheal disease as women often bear the burden of caregiver abuse while water-catching children under five suffering from child growth stunting from drinking from contaminated self-supply water sources.