One Billion People Still Drink Unsafe Water-UN

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Thu Aug-26-04 11:45 AM
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One Billion People Still Drink Unsafe Water-UN

More than one billion people drink unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N. agencies said on Thursday.

"Around the world, millions of children are being born into a silent emergency of simple needs," said UNICEF (news - web sites) Executive Director Carol Bellamy. "We have to act now to close this (health) gap or the death toll will certainly rise," she added.

The World Health Organization (news - web sites) and UNICEF, the Children's Fund, said in a report children were particularly vulnerable to sicknesses brought on by dirty water and poor hygiene.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040826/hl_nm/health_un_water_dc

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Thu Aug-26-04 12:33 PM
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1. Who cares about the poor? Americans want cheap gas and Viagra

Let them drink Perrier.

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