Access to clean drinking water is a luxury many countries don't have. Countries with clean water typically enforce stricter regulations while ensuring proper infrastructure and adequate sanitation facilities to process and decontaminate water. Unfortunately, poor countries often don't have access to those things. Moreover, only four per cent of households treat water suitably before drinking and 93 per cent of households do not treat water at all. There is a strong link between poverty and collection time for water, with the poorest people over 20 times more likely to spend more than 30 minutes collecting water than wealthier people. A cleaned wastewater sample, left, and a purified recycled water sample, right, are displayed at the Metropolitan Water District's pilot water recycling facility in Carson. (Christina House/Los Clean up PFAS from our water supply. All 50 states have water systems contaminated with these health-harming "forever chemicals." They seep into our groundwater from landfills and are dumped .

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