Some 1.5 million children under five die each year from sickness caused by water-borne diseases.
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The foundation also conducts health camps, where doctors screen villagers for everything from water-borne diseases to chronic illnesses.
Ms Massai said water-borne diseases such as typhoid and diarrhoea may spread.
The chief threats to peace in Asian waters come from non-state or pariah-state actors: Somali pirates, North Korean nuclear smugglers, water-borne jihadists, drug- and people-traffickers.
Health officials say the water-borne disease is spreading fast because of the poor sanitation or contaminated water which Zimbabweans are using for drinking and to prepare food.
Take a moment to listen to the story of Setraniona, who regularly suffered from water-borne diseases and had to drop out of school as a child before completing her education.
And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.
The evidence from unglamorous sewerage and hygiene projects is that helping an extra billion people in this way will do much to reduce diarrhoea, cholera and other water-borne diseases that strike the poor disproportionately.
For instances, most fermented drinks need to be boiled at some points, which will kill off bacteria, thus living off alcoholic beverages in times of cholera, others for dysentery and other types of water-borne illnesses.
Approximately 2, 000 people have died from the floods, but in the flood-affected communities the death toll could rise if the related destabilizing threats are not tackled water-borne diseases, food insecurity, destroyed economic opportunities, children who lost their schools, and homelessness at the onset of winter.
What health scientists are telling us is that climate change will bring increased asthma, more virulent allergens, medical emergencies from heat stress, the spread of water- and vector-borne diseases and increased severe weather events.
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Currently, Spirit is examining a series of specimens that were perhaps formed when wind-borne volcanic ash fell to the ground, mixed with water and eventually formed into layered rock.
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