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March 9th 2007

Published: March 19th 2007

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India2007

Home sweet home. We are so lucky here, that we are able to take for granted the supply of safe drinking water at the twist of a tap, and the privacy and hygiene of home flush-toilets.

Let's be thankful for these facilities and spare a thought for those 1 billion people who have no safe drinking water and over 2.5 billion with no toilets, some of whom I have met on this trip.

If you want to help, it costs WaterAid just £15 per head to provide a lasting solution for water, sanitation and hygeine. Please visit WaterAid's website to find out more or donate. Thanks.

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Sarah Hancox

India2007

I am lucky enough to be representing Anglian Water on the supporters' trip to India for the charity WaterAid. I'll be going for 2 weeks (24 Feb to 9 Mar) to see for myself how the charity works to give clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people. Come back to this blog site to read more about the places and people I visit, and see some pictures. In India, 2 out of 3 people do not have access to any sort of toilet. Across the world, 5000 children die every day from preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, caused by dirty water and lack of sanitat... full info

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