Author(s): A. T. Odularu
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Abstract: Globally, the statistics of indigenous people where most of them reside in developing countries was estimated to constitute about 370 million individuals when compared to the non-indigenous people (Jiménez et al. 2017). In other words, they constitute about 5% of the world population, while the nonindigenes constitute about 15%. As a result of this statistics, the indigenous people were observed to be disturbed with situations, such as higher disease burden carriers, higher mortality, poverty, and shorter life expectancy when compared with non-indigenous people (Jiménez et al., 2017). This implies that indigenous people have none and inadequate access to optimal health, constant income, and quality drinking water. Lack of quality drinking water is related to inaccessibility to obtaining accurate data on water situation and water sanitation (Edokpayi et al., 2018; Lam et al., 2017). Report by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research showed that almost 2.11 million people in South Africa lack access to any safe water infrastructure. Access to clean and safe drinking water is required as a constitutional right for all South Africans in the country’s constitution, however sustainable access to a potable water supply by millions of South Africans is lacking. This warrants the research questions, “how can indigenous people have access to quality drinking water, and what are the roles of indigenous youths in ensuring quality drinking water is available for themselves and other people worldwide”? In search of the answers to the research questions, this study was aimed at exploring quality drinking water and its health implication among the indigenous people.
Year: 2022