Lesson 1:
Dirty Water
Handout 1
Percent of Population with Access to Safe
The percent in parenthesis is for the year 1990 and the second percent is for the year 2000 to show progress over ten years in giving people access to safe drinking water.
Central African Rep. (48) 70
Tanzania (38) 68
Mali (55) 65
Zambia (52) 64
Benin (-) 63
Gambia (-) 62
Nigeria (53) 62
Niger (53) 59
Cameroon (51) 58
Kenya (45) 57
Malawi (49) 57
Mozambique (-) 57
Sierra Leone (-) 57
Guinea-Bissau (-) 56
Togo (51) 54
Uganda (45) 52
Congo (-) 51
Guinea (45) 48
Madagascar (44) 47
Eritrea (-) 46
Congo, Dem. Rep. (-) 45
Equatorial Guinea (-) 44
Burkina Faso (-) 42
Rwanda (-) 41
Angola (-) 38
Mauritania (37) 37
Chad (-) 27
Ethiopia (25) 24
Yemen (-) 69
Oman (37) 39
Mongolia (-) 60
Kiribati (-) 48
Fiji (-) 47
Papua New Guinea (40) 42
Lao People’s Dem. Rep. (-) 37
Cambodia (-) 30
(from the UNICEF report Progress: A Statistical Review Since the World Summit for Children)