The Executive Summary of the UN World Water Development Report is available online...

Why Water is the Big Issue
� at any given moment almost half the developing world's people are sick from unsafe water and sanitation.
� lack of water supply and sanitation robs millions of dignity, energy, and time.
� frequent disease is the main cause of poor growth and early death.
� for a third of the world the real environmental crisis is squalor, smells and disease on the doorstep.
� half of the developing world�s hospital beds are occupied by victims of unsafe water and poor sanitation.

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