Sanitation
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Billions of people have access to improved drinking water; and many have gained access to
sanitation
(though a billion people still have to resort to open defecation – a major health risk).
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In Africa, premature deaths from unsafe
sanitation
or childhood malnutrition pale in comparison to deaths due to air pollution, and it comes at a huge economic cost: over 400 billion US dollars as of 2013, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
This, or worse, is the type of access that hundreds of millions of Africans have to electricity, and to water, and to healthcare, and to sanitation, and to education.
Over 2.5 billion people in the world today do not have proper access to water and
sanitation.
And you would think, would you not, that with all our science, with all our advances in society, with better towns, better civilizations, better sanitation, wealth, that we would get better at controlling mosquitos, and hence reduce this disease.
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