One person in five across the world has no access to safe drinking water; two in five have no proper sanitation.

Helen Sewell
There are issues like sanitation, the availability of clean water, of water for you to wash your hands in after you've been to the toilet, for example; to make sure that there are sewage systems in place.

And then, of course, if the water from people's toilets gets mixed up with drinking water, then you've got all sorts of problems and that can lead to many, many thousands of deaths. More than a billion people worldwide already lack enough safe water to meet the minimum health levels.

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VOCABULARY

sanitation - hygienická zařízení
sewage systems - kanalizace
drinking water - pitná voda
water shortage - nedostatek vody
to meet the minimum health levels - splňovat nejzákladnější zdravotní požadavky




How are water issues reported in the newspapers today, or what kinds of reports do we hear in news programmes?

Sharon Brand
I think that there has been a noticeable change in the Media as to how water and sanitation is covered. The World Summit in Johannesburg really did help change that agenda. It put development into the public domain, and something that would be of interest to people.

The UK's main newspapers and television and radio news were all wanting to know about that very human side: how are the poorest people affected by the lack of most basic needs like water and sanitation? And that's something that had been difficult to sell to the Media in the past. The Media were wanting to know more about water wars and that kind of thing, rather than that very human need.

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noticeable change - výrazná změna
development - vývoj
the public domain - veřejné povědomí
water wars - války o vodu
human need - základní lidská potřeba