World Water Crisis

World Water Crisis  book Blue Planet Run safe drinking water to the one billion people who lack it
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Two Sudanese boys drink with specially fitted plastic tubes provided by the Carter Center to guard against the water-borne larvae which are responsible for guinea worm disease. The program has distributed millions of tubes and has reduced the spread of this debilitating disease by 70 percent.

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