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October 23, 2008
UN Ties Potable Water to Reducing World Poverty
A study recently released by the United Nations University finds that ensuring safe water and installing toilets in the world where needed, will do the most for reducing poverty and improving world health.
"Water problems, caused largely by an appalling absence of adequate toilets in many places, contribute tremendously to some of the world's most punishing problems, foremost among them the inter-related afflictions of poor health and chronic poverty," says Zafar Adeel, Director of the UN University's Canadian-based International Network on Water, Environment and Health(UNU-INWEH).
"It is astonishing that, despite all the attention these issues have received over decades, the world has not even properly mapped water and sanitation problems nor agreed on such terms as 'safe,' or 'adequate,' or 'accessible' or 'affordable,' all of which are in daily use by officials and policy-makers."
"We need greater investment in the development of models to aid decision-making, reduce uncertainty and augment costly monitoring programmes," says Dr. Corinne Wallace, a leading water-health researcher at UNU-INWEH. "Combining these efforts with a vulnerability map for water-associated diseases can form the basis for evidence-based policy development," she adds, as reported by United Nations University and published by Medical News Today.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at October 23, 2008 12:29 PM
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