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The U.N. General Assembly passed a measure with no opposition that puts clean drinking water and sanitation on the same footing as the right to live without racial discrimination.
The U.N. Environment Program estimates that more than 800 million people live without access to clean water. Another 2.5 billion lack access to clean sanitation facilities and more than 2 million people die each year because of illness linked to unsafe water.
"The lack of access to drinking water kills more children than AIDS
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Of the 163 members of the United Nations
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"We consider access to safe drinking water and sanitation as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
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The news service said that the United States
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