Thursday, November 16, 2006

UN Urges to End “Water Apartheid”

Next to oxygen, water is the most essential element to human survival. I was alarmed to find out unsafe drinking water is responsible for more deaths in Africa than AIDS and malaria combined. However, this was the first time I really heard about it. How is it these other two issues get so much media, but this one is kept relatively quiet?

Check out the article at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6131922.stm

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