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February 25, 2005
Health Experts Confirm Thousands Die Daily From Dirty Water
As reported by ABC News from a Reuters, London report, that unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation kill 4,000 children every day, global health experts said.
"There should be an outcry, from the health community above all, for immediate, concerted efforts to confront the reality that sanitation coverage rates in the developing world barely keep pace with population growth," said Dr Jamie Bartram, of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Four out of 10 people around the globe do not have access to a simple pit latrine and one-fifth have no source of safe drinking water.
"Far more people endure the largely preventable effects of poor sanitation and water supply than are affected by war, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction," Bartram said in an article in The Lancet medical journal.
The report calls for action by all nations on this global problem, of what has been called the "silent humanitarian crisis".
Posted by Stephen Betheil at February 25, 2005 03:49 PM
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