Question

In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 50% of the population has access to safe drinking water from environmental pollution. How has this shortage of safe drinking water affected sub-Saharan Africa development?

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Explanation below

Explanation:

It should be understood that sub-sahara African countries are the countries that are found below the sahara region. And some of them are Gambia, Ghana, Benin,Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Nigeria and so on.

The incidence of having no access to safe drinking water has brought a lot of problems to this region. For example, most of their citizens are exposed to epidemic of diseases or infections which are water borne such as cholera, typhoid among others. And this has made their government to divert the money which can be used for other developmental projects in treating those infected. Also making use of those money to provide safe drinking water for them.