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Sanitation
- DiarrheaDiarrhea kills more than a million and a half people every year. In 2019, the death toll reached 1.53 million. And yet this condition, which the World Health…
- Water pollutionWater pollution touches nearly every body of water on Earth. Lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs, and groundwater are all vulnerable to…
- CholeraCholera, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has the power to kill an untreated person within hours. A healthy adult can lose ten to twenty litres of…
- ToiletA toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste, and 419 million people have no access to one at all.
- Sewage treatmentSewage treatment is the work of taking the wastewater that drains from households and businesses and turning it into an effluent clean enough to send back…
- Drinking waterDrinking water is water that is safe for ingestion, whether someone drinks it straight or takes it in through prepared food.
- Stunted growthStunted growth is a condition where impaired development leaves a child shorter than expected for their age, and it is one of the most consequential forms of…
- HygieneHygiene is a word that hides an enormous claim inside a small idea. The World Health Organization defines it as conditions and practices that help to…
- GastroenteritisGastroenteritis is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, reaching from the stomach into the intestine. In Canada and the United States, people often…
- SanitationSanitation begins with a single, unglamorous goal: keeping human waste away from human mouths. The route it tries to block even has a name in the field, the…