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    Globally, 40% of people worldwide do not have clean toilets, 5,000 children die every day.

    • Last Update: 2020-07-05
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    toilets everyone needs to,and clean toilets for people'shealthis indispensableInternational health experts warned on January 16th that 5,000children die every daybecause of the lack of clean and hygienic toiletsAccording to British media reports, representatives of 60 WHO unions said on January 15th that 40 percent of the world's population does not have clean and safe toilets, and that 1.8 million children die each year due to dysentery before their fifth birthdayHamish Meldren, president of the British Doctors' Association, said it was a global health facility crisis and governments must act on itThese WHO call on rich countries and philanthropists to work to improve sanitation in the worldHenry Northwell, of WaterAid, a London-based non-governmental organisation, said: "We want the G8 to make this a priority this yearWater Aid was founded in 1981 to help people escape poverty anddisease
    s caused by the lack of safe drinking water and sanitationThey have partnered with local organizations in 15 countries in Africa and Asia to help poor communities build water systems and public toilets near homesThey plan
    to help 1 million people with access to clean and safe drinking
    water each year from 2005 to 2010 2010, 1 million people have access to sanitation , mainly in 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia
    , 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the total population without access to safe drinking water and sanitation worldwide , live in those areas, respectively (
    Wang Hui)
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