Ethiopia Water Crisis 2019
A third of the population is without safe water the joint monitoring programme jmp a global database of water sanitation and hygiene data reports that 31 percent of the ethiopian population relies on unprotected water for their daily needs.
Ethiopia water crisis 2019. Egypt has for years been suffering from a severe water crisis that is largely blamed on population growth. Of those who lack access to improved sanitation a staggering 23 million practice open defecation. A key challenge in reaching sustainable development goal sdg 6 is that few people have either safe in house water access and or latrines with safely managed fecal waste. Ethiopia s water and sanitation crisis 62 million ethiopians lack access to safe water and 97 million lack access to improved sanitation.
Environmental scientists representing egypt ethiopia and sudan are at the heart of an increasingly bitter dispute over africa s largest hydroelectric dam which ethiopia is building on the nile. Ethiopia is located in africa s horn where drought and politics are two leading causes of water shortage.