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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Where Water Kills

Jesus Christ and peace upon the prophet Mohamed, I thought this was what the NGO’s had been dealing with since the 70’s:
WHO: 1.8 million people die every year because of diarrhea; 90 percent are children under 5 years old, and 88 percent of those cases result from bad water and sanitation.

In sub-Saharan Africa, about two-thirds of the rural population, or about 280 million people, drink water from unprotected wells, springs and surface water sources…
The article also has some interesting information on new water sanitation technologies.