Stories: Waterborne Illnesses
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Sanitation in India
A little boy of about six years old stormed out of a ramshackle structure in Holumbi Kalan Phase two, New Delhi, to answer an inevitable call. The urgency with which he ran was a reflection of how powerful the call by nature can be. Under normal condition this child ought to have done this important life function in the privacy...
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World Water Day Update: P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program
For almost a decade, Proctor & Gamble has manufactured water purification packets that helped save over 29,000 lives and prevent over 200 million days of diarrheal illness. Dr. Greg Allgood, the director of P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program (CSDW), has traveled the world to keep updated on how these little packets...
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Bayakou: Why I’m Talking Shit and Cholera on World Water Day
We are born, we eat, we shit. And so it continues till at the end when we pass on. We talk about birth, maternal health, and choices we have or do not have on birthing methods and reproductive rights. We most definitely talk a great deal about food, which if you stand on most streets and look around, seems to...
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The Water Project at Ol Pejeta Conservatory
During our visit to Ol Pejeta with the International Reporting Project, we visited a water collection cooperative. The co-op has 250 members, and they pool resources to purchase water collection kits for each household in the co-op. So far, 78 families have received a kit. The water collection kits allow households to capture and store rainwater during the rainy season, treat it...