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Sewage runs through the street. In India, at the Bhat Camp, a partnership of local NGO’s, other private sector partners, municipal governments, and other public sector institutions, interventions provide support to improve neonatal health, immunization, diarrheal disease control, and nutrition in a population of 125,000 in the most vulnerable slums of the city of Indore. Source: USAID/Chris Thomas
More than 1 billion people worldwide currently live without potable water, and an estimated 2.6 billion people, including 980 million children, do not have access to basic sanitation facilities. About 1.6 million children under age 5 died last year from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene in developing countries, and millions more were put at significant risk of exposure to waterborne infections, such as cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery. Contaminated drinking water is also a threat to people living with HIV/AIDS. |
Posted: 12:11, 24.03.2008 |
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