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UN: Invest more in sanitation for poor

By Newswire Newsletter on 01 April 2008

The United Nations has urged the international community to increase its investment in sanitation for people living in impoverished conditions. According to the organization, investing USD10 billion every year could halve the number of people living without basic toilet facilities by 2015. “An estimated 42,000 people die every week from diseases related to low water quality and an absence of adequate sanitation,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has also declared 2008 as the Year of Sanitation. The lack of adequate sanitation and insufficient access to safe water often results in widespread cases of diarrhea and other diseases that kill at least 1.8 million children a year. (Source: U.N. urges investment to boost sanitation for poor/Reuters)

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