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How Many People Actually Lack Clean Water?
That headline number—2.2 billion people without safe drinking water—comes from a 2019 WHO/UNICEF report and is already stale. But the deeper problem is how that number is measured. In this episode, we unpack the Joint Monitoring Programme's ladder framework, the gap between "basic access" and "safely managed" water, and why household surveys and predictive models often miss contamination that happens between the source and the tap. We explore the urban-rural divide, the intermittency blind spot in cities like Jakarta, and why the absolute number of people lacking safely managed water has…
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