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?4,000 children die daily from water-borne diseases?
By Femi Makinde, Published: Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010
A non-governmental organization, Life and Peace Development Organization, has lamented the high number of deaths caused by water-borne diseases in the country.
The Executive Director of LAPDO, Mr. Frank Oloniju, said at a sensitization program to commemorate the World Water Day on Monday that no fewer than 4,000 children under the age of five died daily from preventable water-related diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera and typhoid-fever.
He said that the importance of the day was to draw the attention of the various tiers of government to the importance of clean water to good health.
While advising government at various levels to invest more in the provision of safe drinking-water and sanitation to their citizens, he said that 152,000 children died every year from diarrhea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. READ MORE
By Femi Makinde, Published: Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010
A non-governmental organization, Life and Peace Development Organization, has lamented the high number of deaths caused by water-borne diseases in the country.
The Executive Director of LAPDO, Mr. Frank Oloniju, said at a sensitization program to commemorate the World Water Day on Monday that no fewer than 4,000 children under the age of five died daily from preventable water-related diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera and typhoid-fever.
He said that the importance of the day was to draw the attention of the various tiers of government to the importance of clean water to good health.
While advising government at various levels to invest more in the provision of safe drinking-water and sanitation to their citizens, he said that 152,000 children died every year from diarrhea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. READ MORE