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title: "Countries With the Worst Drinking Water"  
description: "Let’s count down the countries with the highest percentage of the population lacking basic access to water."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-10  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1535/countries-with-the-worst-drinking-water  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Countries", "drinking water", "worst drinking water"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Countries With the Worst Drinking Water

![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/897735df-dcbf-4adc-bf2d-a0df9f49b0e2.jpeg) ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/74a025fa-1eb1-4423-adee-3336626f9f02.jpeg) Eritrea: 80.7% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/19932567-523f-43f4-a9f8-937bcb533b45.jpeg) Papua New Guinea: 63.4% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/ccede0d7-647a-4ab1-b977-6def82055092.jpeg) Uganda: 61.1% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/f58010a9-e962-431b-a55b-e97921188029.jpeg) Ethiopia: 60.9% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/88987c61-5126-4f75-abbd-3ad5ce289120.jpeg) Somalia: 60% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/2baead98-7413-47b7-ad99-0ee69fdf7dc4.jpeg) Angola: 59% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/2f9ecac3-4172-4465-9092-057a206e5695.jpeg) Democratic Republic of the Congo: 58.2% lack basic water services ![Countries With the Worst Drinking Water](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/054025ff-f4ec-41ad-8404-95f74e9490d9/images/a625aefa-aced-4e91-b01f-2b0f97f164bb.jpeg) Chad: 57.5% lack basic water services

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