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It is also clear that climate change (global warming) is also a major issue in Africa because of conflicts and environmental deterioration it brings to the society.... The pollution in the atmosphere for the last 50 years can all be attributed to human activities globally and especially in the developed countries.... The developing countries have less carbon dioxide emissions compared to large productions from industries in developed countries (Dean, James and Pavel)....
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2) asserts that governments do not always provide residents with basic services, but they are invariably involved in their provision and usually claim to be working to ensure that all residents have access to adequate water and sanitation.... 2) defines urban governance for basic services as the full range of arrangements through which government and other actors work together to install and manage the water and sanitation systems.... These disadvantages lead them to end up using water and sanitation systems that are unhealthy and even illegal....
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Its significance is evident from the following quote of the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Anan who stated, “No single measure would do more to reduce disease and save lives in the developing world than bringing safe water and adequate sanitation (Water: The Crisis of 21st Century, 2007).... 90% of waste water is released without proper treatment and poor quality of water causes approximately 50-100 lacks of deaths every year.... poor water quality leads to the death of one child in every fifteen seconds and 25000 people die every day due to malnutrition (Water: The Crisis of 21st Century, 2007)....
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The rise in global deaths with malaria-related diseases has led to the formation of programs that are aimed at reducing the number of deaths.... Most of the affected groups have a wrong perception of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and therefore they don't control the vector causing malaria (McCracken and Phillips 75) Malaria has become a global concern because it is considered to be both a disease of poverty and a major cause of poverty mostly in developing countries....
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The paper "Rich and poor by Singer" discusses that the overall discussion of Singer (2011) in chapter 9, the chapter summary shall exhibit that as the climate warms, it changes the entire process of the ecosystem, nature of global rainfall, and ecological, biological as well as geological systems.... Singer (2011) also argues in this chapter that everyone can help the poor directly through the organizations taking initiatives to help the poor by sufficing their fundamental needs....
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In the face of globalization, many poor countries do not gain from the increased interconnectedness because of increased competition hence even domestic policies in poor countries trend to favor developed countries.... In this respect, the poor continue to remain poor while the rich continue to accumulate wealth.... Persistent inequality results into a vicious cycle of poverty in which the poor cannot take their children to school hence their children will not get better jobs due to increased competition in the job market and will continue with a generation of chronic poverty....
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It is estimated that over 1 billion people have no access to clean water and another in the regions of 2.... Many countries around the globe have been preoccupied with the issue of the availability of clean water.... nbsp;In Bolivia, importation of irrigated products from other countries with poor water conditions resulted in outbreaks of a host of illnesses (Peet, 2003; Alkon, 2011).... billion having access to poor sanitation (United Nations, 2002)....
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It is estimated that around 226 million people do not have access to safe water and at least 640 million people do not have proper sanitation facilities in India.... Out of the 37 diseases as major causes of death, 21 diseases are associated with unsafe water and inadequate sanitation (Ramchandraiah).... As per the news report published in the Guardian in September 2010, poor sanitation, lack of water and improper waste disposal methods in Kenya carry a huge risk of water-borne diseases....
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