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Safe Water Saves Lives: World Water Day 2013
Michael Beach, PhD, Associate Director for Healthy Water, NCEZID What if we lost 32 school buses full of children today? That’s 2,195 children—the number who die daily of diarrhea around the world....
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Water Is Life: Combatting Cholera in Haiti
At the small water point in Trianon, Haiti, you can see a crowd gather. Here, as at many such sites across the country, locals wait their turn to fill buckets for drinking, washing and cooking –...
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Fresh Voices From the Field: The Value of Our Global Health Work
Chelsey Beane is pictured near the home of a traditional healer in Andruvu Village, in the Arua District of Uganda. This is the fourth in our ongoing “Fresh Voices From the Field” series, where we...
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Saving Energy, Saving Lives: World Water Day 2014
Water is easy to take for granted until…you don’t have enough of it. Ciara O’Reilly, PhD, Epidemiologist, CDC’s Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch Jennifer Murphy, PhD, Microbiologist, CDC’s...
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Implications of Latrines on Women’s and Girls’ Safety
Michelle Hynes and Michelle Dynes are epidemiologists in CDC’s Emergency Response and Recovery Branch. Michelle Hynes and Michelle Dynes are epidemiologists in CDC’s Emergency Response and Recovery...
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Water is Essential
Eric Mintz, CDC World Water Day is an opportunity to evaluate the importance of improved sanitation and hygiene in the health of the world’s population. Access to basic hygiene and sanitation...
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CDC Observes World Environment Day
Climate change is any significant variation in temperature, precipitation, wind, or other type of weather that lasts for decades or longer. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5 to...
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Bringing Clean, Safe, and Innovative Sanitation Services to East Africa
Photo courtesy of Sanivation Eric Mintz, MD, MPH, Team Lead, Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Epidemiology Team, Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and...
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Everyone Needs Somewhere to Go: World Toilet Day 2016
We use toilets every day – at home, school, and work – yet 40% of the world’s population does not have this luxury. Clean and safe toilets are more than just a place to use the restroom. They are...
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The Consequences of Contaminated Water
Thank you to CDC’s Rick Gelting, Tom Handzel and Eric Mintz for their assistance in writing this story. March 22 is World Water Day. CDC highlights the need for all people to have access to safe water,...
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