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Mar -06 Latrine, Water Four out of 10 people worldwide have no access to a latrine, two out of 10 lack access to clean drinking water, only half of the world's population have piped water in their homes, and between 30 and 40 percent of piped water is lost to leakages. Link Mar -06 Disease, Water Eighty percent of illnesses and deaths in the developing world are attributed to water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid, guinea worm, diarrhea and polio, and over one million people a year die of malaria alone, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, which lay their eggs in stagnant water. Link                         Cartoon

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