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Dirty water creates an education drain

BMJ 2004; 328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0404137 (Published 01 April 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;328:0404137
  1. Vittal Katikireddi1
  1. 1London

A lack of clean water and sanitation is a leading cause of 104 million children worldwide being unable to attend school, says a new report, The Education Drain, published by the charity WaterAid.

The report shows that many children in Africa and Asia are too sick to attend school after using dirty water and do not have time to attend school because they have …

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