Survey Group to Release Findings to Coincide With World Water Day

Afrobarometer plans to release a report of its latest survey of citizens in 36 African countries on their access to clean drinking water and sanitation, to coincide with World Water Day on Tuesday. Officials of Afrobarometer, a pan-African non-partisan research network, say they conducted 54,000 interviews in the poll. According to the survey, the past decade has seen no improvement in water scarcity. It says across 18 countries tracked since 2005-2006, the average proportion of...

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