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“Access to improved water supply is not only a fundamental need and a human right, it also has considerable health and economic benefits to households and individuals.” (World Health Organization)
Safe water is a basic requirement for human and economic development.
Unsafe drinking water and poor hygiene cause a recurring syndrome of problems. Sick children can’t attend school. So parents of sick children take time from work to care for them. Often these illnesses are passed back and forth in families with poor hygiene. In most under developed countries, mothers know that some of their children will very likely die. Parents need money to buy medication to counteract these illnesses. Sick children and adults mean fewer hands to work for food or income. Chronic, life-threatening diseases rob adults of the health and energy they need to work at income-generating jobs.
This syndrome of disease is preventable.