Three in ten people around the world do not have access to safe water at home, while twice that number do not have proper sanitation, according to the first-ever global assessment on safely managed drinking water and sanitation services.
And that has put the health of billions of people, especially children, at risk, according to the World Health Organization and the UN's Children Fund Unicef.
Our UN correspondent Liling Tan has the details from New York.
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