Global clean drinking water crisis: problems and solutions
Afghan children pump water from a well in Gamser, Helmand province, on February 20, 2011. Afghanistan has the highest mortality rate in the world - 257 deaths per 1,000 live births - and 70 percent of the population lacks access to clean water, according to UNICEF.
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