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[Excerpt] Perhaps nothing is more critical to the maintenance of public health than the supply
of clean water. All of the lives saved through modern medicine account for no more than a …

When Europeans spend a few days in New Delhi or Mumbai, they do not necessarily bring
along chlorine pills to purify the tap water. It would taste too awful. They just drink hot tea …

While wealth and power are concentrated in cities, they are by no means evenly shared.
Harpham2, Stephens3 and others have documented clearly the difference in health …

The public health White Paper was finally released on 6th July under the optimistic title
Saving Lives (Department of Health [DoH], 1999). The problem is that it is far from clear how …

SERVING THE UNSERVED with water and sanitation facilities is an essential element of
alleviating poverty. Two related parts of the puzzle must also be addressed: water and …

Israel is a country located in the Middle East to the North West of the Mediterranean Sea.
Neighboring nations include Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and the region West Bank and …

In nineteenth century London, four large cholera outbreaks killed some 37,000 people.
Completion of the capital's sewer system contributed significantly to later reductions in …