This is an excerpt of the November 30, 2020 episode of What's Up With Water.
So many who were at the cusp of a better life have been beset by an extraordinary reversal of fortune. Until this year, extreme poverty had been steadily falling across the globe over the recent decades. At the same time, hundreds of millions of people had gained access to proper water and sanitation services.
The spread of the new coronavirus has twisted those trajectories.
