{"id":16684,"date":"2015-02-03T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T07:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:04:48","slug":"why-the-world-needs-water-that-is-clean-and-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16684","title":{"rendered":"Why the world needs water that is clean and affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last three years, I have chaired the Customer Challenge Group for a regional water company in the UK (South East Water) so, more than ever, I have been aware that clean and affordable water is vital to all communities both in the UK and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to the latest IFC figures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2.5 billion people are without safe sanitation<\/li>\n<li>about 768 million people still lack access to clean drinking water<\/li>\n<li>roughly 3.5 million people die annually from water-related diseases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How can this be changed? You&#8217;ll find a good article on the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2015\/jan\/30\/water-privatisation-worldwide-failure-lagos-world-bank?CMP=twt_gu%20\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last three years, I have chaired the Customer Challenge Group for a regional water company in the UK (South East Water) so, more than ever, I have been aware that clean and affordable water is vital to all communities both in the UK and around the world. But, according to the latest IFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16713,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions\/16713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}