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Universal access to clean water is within reach. How can we achieve it?

An earthquake survivor drinks water from a well in a provisional camp at downtown Port-au-Prince October 30, 2010. The unusually high death rate in Haiti's cholera epidemic is slowing as people become aware of the disease and health experts provide treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. The United Nations agency's key aim now is to prevent the disease from spreading south to the capital Port-au-Prince and the camps for homeless survivors of the January 12 earthquake, from the northern department of Artibonite where it is concentrated.

Every day 700 children die from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water. Image: REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz.

Keith Schneider
Senior Editor and Chief Correspondent, Circle of Blue
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