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India eliminates extreme poverty
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Yeah, that is amazing.
Also this seems incredible:
A lot of pipes in a very short time?!
Sounds similar to what we need to do in America(except repairs/replacements also). It revitalizes economies to have all those workers in their area for such a time lol
It's important to improve water access and quality in the us, but this figure from 2023 paints a very different situation than India.
https://www.cdcfoundation.org/blog/addressing-growing-water-crisis-us
2.2mil/330mil is less than 1%.
2.2 is still way, way too high, but India has a much more serious issue. (and has made great progress!)
Yes I meant to highlight repairing pipes in America but I failed at doing that well lol
I don't know how they define "piped water" but I would bet it means "ran a pipe from the river into town" so that it doesn't have to be carried in buckets a long way, not domestic water supplies.
But just building it once doesn't mean they'll maintain it, either. It doesn't mean much if it falls apart a few years from now.