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Politics, News & Issues > Food & Agriculture Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation claims 4,500 lives a day. What should we do about it?

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Over one billion are without access to safe, clean drinking water. The obvious health consequences of this extremely high number was made even more apparent by a recent United Nations report, which stated that lack of clean water and basic sanitation claims more lives than violence every year.  However, lack of sanitary water does far more damage against communities than merely affecting the overall health of the people living in them, it is also quickly becoming a major international security crisis. Lack of access to clean water in war-ravaged regions of the world such as Sudan, Cen...

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