Dirty water 'kills 1.5m children'
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Lack of access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation kills 1.5 million children every year, Unicef says.
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Nearly 9.7 million children die each  year before their fifth birthday from diseases from pneumonia  to malaria, but simple affordable measures could save more  lives, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Sewage-contaminated water in an eastern Pakistani city has killed two more people, bringing the death toll to nine, and sickened more than 19,000 others, officials said Thursday.
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Â· Overflow of scalding water killed 10-month-old girlÂ· Inquest hears incident may lead to change in law
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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NAIROBI, Oct 8 (IPS) - First, the good news: while nearly one in five  children was dying before the age of five in the early 1960s,  this figure had dropped to less than one in 12 by 2002.
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By Eben Harrell  IT WAS a chemical spill that poisoned a stretch of a scenic Scottish river and left 7,000 fish dead.   But Scottish Water - turnover GBP 1 billion a year - was ordered to pay a GBP 5,000 fine over the incident yesterday.
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The number of deaths worldwide among children under 5 dropped to a record low of 9.7 million in 2006, reflecting progress in areas such as malaria prevention, childhood immunizations and breastfeeding rates, global health officials said yesterday.
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REAL, Philippines  - More than 1,000 people have  been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods  devastated three coastal towns in the Philippines, a military  spokesman said Thursday.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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At least seven people have died and thousands of others have fallen sick after drinking contaminated water in an industrial city in eastern Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000 people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused 64.7 billion yuan (&#36;7.82 billion) in direct economic losses, the official Xinhua News agency said.
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Five thousand children die every day globally because they do not have access to clean toilets, health experts said on Tuesday.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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BEIJING - Falling water levels in China's Yangtze River have left 1 million people short of drinking water, state media reported Monday.
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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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About 1,500 workers in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz struggled to clean up oil and oil-soaked sand and vegetation on Friday after 5,000 barrels of crude leaked into a river leading to the Gulf of Mexico, coating local beaches