Most people without access to clean water are NOT tribes who have never contacted the outside world before. They're people in places with bad infrastructure, poverty, corruption, Nestle lobbying, etc.
Most of these people have lived off their water source all their life. To them, "it's fine".
They'd like it cleaner - but they'd also like their house smarter, their kids better educated, their bike cheaper to run and their roads to have fewer potholes. That's literally what everyone wants.
But without education, they won't realise that the slightly murky water is what caused their child to get sick and die, or that the arsenic poisoning is why they've been low on energy for their whole life and struggle to concentrate in class.
Most people - both in developed and developing nations - don't understand the importance of clean water vs all the other things they'd like in their life.
Heck, in my travels I've met a lot of people who get water from a stream to drink, and even own a water filter, but can't be bothered to use it because it takes a few minutes for the water to seep through.
I mean yes but they also still don’t think it matters. It’s a thing they consider just part of life. It’s like how a lot of Americans don’t wash hands, a lot of the world still smokes, etc.
You find plenty of democracies around the world with unsafe drinking water and no politicians really talking about it because the people just don’t care.
Well GP listed like, 6 things. I have to agree with them that the vast majority of people without access to water are not so disconnected from the world that they don't understand the important of clean water.
Wow, that's patronizing.
Most people without access to clean water are NOT tribes who have never contacted the outside world before. They're people in places with bad infrastructure, poverty, corruption, Nestle lobbying, etc.