despite the reductions recorded over the decade levels of severe deprivation in access to drinking water are still high in a number of countries especially in the andean region in the plurinational state of bolivia of children were severely deprived of access to drinking water in and in peru of children were severely deprived in those who were not attending school at the time of measurement and had not completed secondary education but had attended school at some time are considered to be moderately deprived education is one of the child poverty dimensions with the lowest percentage of moderately or severely deprived children and adolescents in of the regions under yearolds suffered moderate or severe deprivation of their right to education they had never attended school or had dropped out although only suffered severe deprivation from this it may be surmised that virtually all children have access to formal basic education see table only two countries nicaragua and guatemala recorded levels of severe deprivation at or above when last measured see figure ii