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More deaths from unsafe water than from war
UNITED NATIONS — More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in a message to mark World Water Day.
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF noted that more than 155 million people, or 39 percent of the population in West and Central Africa, do not have access to potable water, with only eight of 24 countries in the region on track to meet key poverty-reduction targets by 2015.
"These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential,"
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