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< 3,000,000,000 Humans Live in Poverty |
World Bank Chief Economist: Kaushik Basu |
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>80% of wastewater worldwide is not collected or treated. Cities are the main source of the pollution. |
World Water Development Report, 2012 |
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Almost 90% of diarrheal deaths are due to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. |
"Diarrhea: Why Children are Still Dying and What Can be Done," UNICEF/WHO, 2009. |
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Around 200 million hours are spent each day globally collecting water, most of it by women. |
World Health Organization, Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Water and Sanitation Improvements at the Global Level (2004) |
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More than 1 billion people can't access safe water. More than 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation. |
Human Development Report 2006, Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis |
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Slums will grow in size by 1 billion more people within the next twenty years. |
“5 Biggest Slums in the World”. Daniel Tovrov. International Business Times. December 9, 2011. |
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The water in slums costs more than in London. |
World Bank work paper 147 |
