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Some 110,000 kids die of water borne diseases annually in Bangladesh

by Amitjha | November 10, 2008 at 03:36 am

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It is a huge number of untimely death, and the reason is investment of 4-5 dollar to buy water filters.This world is very very strange, the divide is growing day by day in every pssible form, and the sufferers are non other than innocent childrens.

Every year, about 110,000 children under the age of five die of water borne diseases in Bangladesh due to lack of sanitation, leading English newspaper The Daily Star reported Sunday.
    According to official health statistics, 65 million children under five in the country are affected by water borne diseases because of lack of sanitation annually, the newspaper said.
    The UN sources said under the global scenario of urbanization and population growth are threatening one of the UN's most ambitious millennium development goals. The UN had hoped to halve the number of people without access to clean drinking water and sanitation by 2015.
    But, progress has slowed due to population increases and unexpectedly high migration to urban areas, the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergence Fund (UNICEF) said.
    They estimated some 2.6 billion people worldwide have no sanitation and every year 1.6 million children under the age of five die because of such a lack of access

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Rob Walker

at 04:34 on November 10th, 2008

a disturbing story, to be sure.

gerrypopplestone

at 05:37 on November 10th, 2008

This is quite scandalous! More people (and children) die through water born diseases each year and yet the Millenium Goals don't even include these diseases. And when the goals were first mooted in 1999, they did not even include sanitation or access to clean water!

Amitjha

at 21:22 on November 10th, 2008

Thanks for very healthy comment on sotry about unhealthy childrens of Benglades, who are dying in masses just because of water. Well these milleniun goals are nothing but a lobbiest approach by the pharma company , according to there own future market potentials .Just see the money that is wasted for the AIDS campaign, just fraction of that can solve the problem of dirty water of Bangladesh.