Climate

Featured Climate Sectors

• Water

  

  1 in 7 people
  lacks access to clean water

  Even though two-thirds of the earth is covered with water, only one percent is drinkable. Every day, more than one billion people struggle to find water—water that will likely make them sick.

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  Results

  From 2000-2010, IDA provided more than 113 million people with access to an improved water source by constructing or rehabilitating almost 500,000 improved community water points, and more than 1.5 million piped household water connections.

  • The Reality

    Every 20 seconds one child under the age of five dies from water-related disease

  • The Need

    $55 a person the average cost of expanding water supply access

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• Energy

  

  1.5 billion people
  without access to electricity

  Without access to energy services, the poor are deprived of the most basic economic opportunities needed to improve their standards of living. About 2.5 billion use solid fuels—wood, charcoal and dung—for cooking and heating. Every year fumes and smoke from open cooking fires kill approximately 1.6 million people mostly women and children, from respiratory diseases.

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  Results

  In 2010 alone, IDA financed energy projects totaling $1.36 billion.

  • The Need

    $40 billion in investment is needed each year in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve universal access in half of countries by 2030

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