For information purposes, it is helpful to know about the different sources of water for your facility. Maintaining safe drinking water is critical. Pipes can rust, contaminants may develop and other issues could arise to affect the quality of drinking water.UNICEF works in more than 100 countries to provide safe water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) to the world’s most vulnerable communities, whether by delivering safe water after a disaster or promoting proper hygiene practices in schools and communities.

Key Takeaways:

• Environmental engineer Susan Murcott has dedicated her life to developing effective and affordable safe drinking water solutions.
• Globally, more childhood deaths occur annually due to unsanitary water-related diseases than to the current pandemic.
• Privileged people around the world do not take the global problem of access to safe drinking water seriously.

“Though Murcott didn’t know it at the time, her decades-long career focusing on clean water access would bring her in close collaboration with countless others around the world whose lives, like her grandmother’s, are impacted by unsafe drinking water.”

Read more: https://news.mit.edu/2021/susan-murcott-water-0321