Re: [Marxism] query re water and malnutrition deaths

[Steve Palmer <spalmer999@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's not the lousy water which kills, but what's wriggling around in the lousy 
water. Not sure if this answers your question, but the WHO has some pretty good 
documentation for 20 water related diseases. Eg 2.2m dead from Diarrhoea in 
1998 (about 6000 per day). Add in typhoid, cholera, dysentery, malaria etc. and 
the bodies begin to pile up. 
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/en/

Presumably these deaths get attributed to a disease if it kills you before the 
malnutrition does - WHO splits off nutrition issues to elsewhere on their site. 

Steve


--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] query re water and malnutrition deaths
> To: "Steve Palmer" <spalmer999@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 7:58 AM
> When global malnutrition deaths are quoted (such as 24,000
> per day, say), do these figures include those due to unsafe
> or inadequate water supplies? The sites that talk about
> deaths due to water issues don't seem to mention food,
> and vice versa. 
> 
> Michael D. 
> 
> 
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