Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Water woes?

Though the water coverage in urban Nepal hits 93% mark and rural area makes up to 82%, safe drinking water is available for 15% of the population. The recent studies shown that about 3 million people that constitute the 55% population of Terai district. As a new guidelines of WHO they are drinking water that is contaminated by Arsenic that is 10 times of the WHO standard. What will be the future of those who drank this water. And it’s alarming that 14700/year deaths of children by diarrhea caused by Giardia and other helminthes.

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