Water in Cameroon
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CAMEROON, 2015/03/04
Additional than half the world's eight billion people will be living in cities within five years, demographers predict – and Africa is at the forefront of that transition.
The west African country of Cameroon has been leading the trend. By 2010, the majority of its people by presently were living in urban areas, putting pressure on infrastructure and city services.
The capital, Yaoundé, exemplifies the challenges – swelling, crowded communities where schools, clinics, jobs, sanitation and access to clean water are scarce. Urban agriculture is practiced across the city, and humans share space with an estimated 50,000 pigs and over a million chickens, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
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BOTSWANA, 2013/04/02
Access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a universal human right and central to human wellbeing and development. From presently on 780 million people still receive drinking water from unimproved sources and 2.5 billion people continue to live without access to improved sanitation facilities. IDS' work on water and sanitation has been looking at what additional needs to be done, particularly through a new set of post 2015 development goals, to ensure that this right is enjoyed by amount.
