Africa: Thirsting for Justice On World Water Day

[HRW]If you are reading this, it’s not likely you will be one of the 2.5 billion people looking for a place to defecate outdoors. Or one of the hundreds of millions of mostly women and children walking great distances, or waiting in long lines, to collect one or two buckets of water – water that may not even be safe to drink. By the time the sun sets on World Water Day this Saturday, more than 1,800 children will have died from preventable, treatable diarrhea, largely linked to lack of clean water and sanitary

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