{"id":8896,"date":"2020-04-01T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","slug":"coronavirus-puts-water-at-the-survival-battlefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/04\/01\/coronavirus-puts-water-at-the-survival-battlefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Puts Water At The Survival Battlefront"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world is currently facing a pandemic like never experienced before. Countries, cities and towns are on lockdown as nations battle to control the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and scientists work around the clock to find some sort of vaccine or cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya, being part of the global community, has not been spared, with 50 confirmed cases by 29th March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world battles to gain control, one thing has become very clear: maintaining hygiene is the surest way to contain the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chorus across the globe has been &#8216;wash your hands with running water and soap&#8217; to be safe. Once again, and even though we don&#8217;t need any reminding, the importance of water to the survival of humanity has come to the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, even as the world marked the International Water Day on March 22, access to clean and safe water still remained a challenge to billions of people. According to the United Nations, some 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water and 4.2 billion live without access to adequate sanitation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/ideas\/Coronavirus-puts-water-at-the-survival-battlefront\/4259414-5509286-10piq9y\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is currently facing a pandemic like never experienced before. Countries, cities and towns are on lockdown as nations battle to control the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}