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UN: One in Four people lack access to safe drinking water

An Afghan Hazara boy drinks water from a tap in Qavariyak village in Shibar district of Bamiyan province on June 18, 2025. [AFP]

More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere near quickly enough.

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