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Background |
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- At any given moment almost half the developing world's people are sick from unsafe water and sanitation. |
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- Lack of water supply and sanitation robs millions of dignity, energy, and time. |
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- Frequent disease is the main cause of poor growth and early death. |
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- For a third of the world the real environment crisis is squalor, smells and disease on the door step |
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- Economies suffer as hygiene-related illness costs developing countries five billion working days a year. |
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- Sustainable development starts with people's hearts and dignity. |
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