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STORY: UNICEF / WATER
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SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
2 JULY 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
1. Wide shot, Sana’a city
2. Wide shot, destroyed buildings in Sana’a
3. Wide shot; children stand by a cart with water containers in streets
4. Wide shot, pan right; large water tank that is the source of water
5. Wide shot, tracking back; inside the Azaal Health Center
6. Med shot, little girl sitting inside hallway
10 JANUARY 2017, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
7. Wide shot: children and adults stand in line to fetch water from a public water point in Dummar neighborhood east of Damascus
8. Close up, water containers being filled at public water point in Damascus
9. Med shot, children push cart full of water containers in Damascus street
27 JULY 2017, MABROUKA CAMP, HASSAKEH, SYRIA
10. Wide shot, a general view of tents in Mabrouka makeshift camp, north-eastern Syria.
11. Med shot, a child fills a jerry can from a UNICEF-supported water tank in Mabrouka makeshift camp, north-eastern Syria.
12. Med shot, a child fetches water for his family in Mabrouka makeshift camp, north-eastern Syria.
26-30 MARCH 2016, KUN LI, QULUJEED, SOMALILAND
13. Wide shot, refugee women and children uprooted from the drought seeking refuge near a village in Qulujeed, Awdal region
14. Med shot, refugee women and children staying in the open
2-3 APRIL 2017, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
15. Med shot: sign outside Bay Regional Hospital
16. Med shot: Irene Obare, UNICEF Nutrition Specialist, Somalia, assess the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of 2 year old Mohamed Barow Mustafa who sits on the lap of his mother, Habibo Mohamed Yusuf
17. Close up, Irene assess the MUAC of Mohamed
10–15 MAY 2017, ABUROC, UPPER NILE, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Wide shot, girl walks toward water point
19. Wide shot, a lady pumps water from a borehole
20. Close shot, water coming out of hose and into bucket
17 NOVEMBER 2016, MUNA GARAGE IDP CAMP, MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
21. Wide shot, people lined in a queue, filling their jerry cans from a borehole
22. Wide shot, people lined in a queue, filling their jerry cans from a borehole
23. Close up, a woman filling her jerry can from a borehole
24. Wide shot, UNICEF WASH specialist instructs women and children at borehole
More than 180 million people do not have access to basic drinking water in countries affected by conflict, violence and instability worldwide, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today (29 Aug), as World Water Week gets under way.
The agency reiterated that children’s access to safe water and sanitation is a right, not a privilege, and it must be a priority.
People living in fragile situations are four times more likely to lack basic drinking water than populations in non-fragile situations, according to a recent UNICEF and World Health Organisation analysis. Of the estimated 484 million people living in fragile situations in 2015, 183 million lacked basic drinking water services.
In Yemen, a country reeling from the impact of over two years of conflict, water supply networks that serve the country’s largest cities are at imminent risk of collapse due to war-inflicted damage and disrepair. Around 15 million people in the country have been cut off from regular access to water and sanitation.
In Syria, where the conflict is well into its seventh year, around 15 million people are in need of safe water, including an estimated 6.4 million children. Water has frequently been used as a weapon of war: In 2016 alone, there were at least 30 deliberate water cuts – including in Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Raqqa and Dara, with pumps destroyed and water sources contaminated.
In conflict-affected areas in northeast Nigeria, 75 per cent of water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, leaving 3.6 million people without even basic water services.
In South Sudan, where fighting has raged for over three years, almost half the water points across the country have been damaged or completely destroyed.
UNICEF warned that with no safe water, malnutrition and potentially fatal diseases like cholera will inevitably follow.
In Yemen, for example, children make up more than 53 per cent of the over half a million cases of suspected cholera and acute watery diarrhoea reported so far. Somalia is suffering from the largest outbreak of cholera in the last five years, with nearly 77,000 cases of suspected cholera/acute watery diarrhoea. And in South Sudan, the cholera outbreak is the most severe the country has ever experienced, with more than 19,000 cases since June 2016.
In famine-threatened north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, nearly 30 million people, including 14.6 million children, are in urgent need of safe water. More than 5 million children are estimated to be malnourished this year, with 1.4 million severely so.
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