2006/11/11

Speaks for itself

From Toilets Underused to Fight Disease, U.N. Study Finds:
it would cost $10 billion a year to halve the percentage of people without access to safe drinking water and to provide them with simple pit latrines. But that is less than half what rich countries spend annually on bottled water.

2 comments:

Desiree said...

I wanted to read this full article, but I could not remember my NYT online password. Dang.

But the quote raised a great point. As everyone is saying, Water is/will be really the new battleground around issues of social justice.

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