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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.
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Ms Massai said water-borne diseases such as typhoid and diarrhoea may spread.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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