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STORY: UNICEF / FAMINE SAFE WATER
TRT: 01:55
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT, 29 MARCH, 2017; CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
26-30 MARCH, 2016, SOMALILAND, SOMALIA
1. Close up, dry cracked soil
2. Wide shot, dust blown up by wind
3. Med shot, dead donkey succumbed to drought
4. Various shots, refugee women and children uprooted by the drought
12 MARCH, 2017, AWEIL, SOUTH SUDAN
5. Wide shot, dry bush
6. Med shot, jerry can being lowered into a dirty well
7. Various shots, girl drawing water from well
8. Various shots, girl walking with jerry can back to village
2 March 2017, YEMEN
9. Various shots, people lining up to fill jerry cans with water from tank
10. Close up, jerry can being filled with water
11. Med shot, boy filling jerry can with water
12. Med shot, people filling jerry cans with water from tank
17 NOVEMBER, 2016, MUNA GARAGE IDP CAMP, MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
13. Various shots, people lined up to fill jerry cans with water
14. Various shots, people filling jerry cans with water
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said some 27 million people in four famine-threatened countries are reliant on unsafe water which can lead to fatal diarrheal diseases among already malnourished children.
UNICEF said water shortages, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene practices and disease outbreaks are posing an additional threat to severely malnourished children in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. The Fund projected that the number of people in need of water, sanitation and hygiene in Somalia will increase from 3.3 million to 4.5 million in the coming weeks with the country already recording 13,000 cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea since the beginning of the year. Half of South Sudan’s water points have been damaged or destroyed and UNICEF said competition for water among people and animals were being reinforced as a result of seasonal dry weather with 5.1 million people lacking safe water and adequate sanitation.
UNICEF cited the ongoing conflict in Yemen as a cause for leaving at least 14.5 million people without adequate drinking water and basic sanitation and hygiene. Almost two million Yemeni children are at risk of diarrheal diseases which, even before the conflict, were the second leading cause of death among children under the age of five. The Fund said 75 percent of water and sanitation infrastructure in conflict-affected areas in northeast Nigeria have been damaged or destroyed, leaving 3.8 million people with no access to safe water.
UNICEF stressed that its efforts to respond to the crisis would not be enough without an end to the conflicts plaguing these countries, sustainable and unimpeded access to the children in need of support and more resources.
