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Water and sanitation
March 2007



A child dies every 15 seconds from a disease caused by the lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation or poor hygiene. Investing in water and sanitation is an effective way of saving lives, like these children in southern Ethiopia, who are drawing unsafe water from a pothole.

A child dies every 15 seconds from a disease caused by the lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation or poor hygiene. Investing in water and sanitation is an effective way of saving lives, like these children in southern Ethiopia, who are drawing unsafe water from a pothole.

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Photo: Daniel Cima/American Red Cross

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