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UN: 1.6 Billion People Still Have No Access To Electricity

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New York - The United Nations called Monday for a clean energy revolution that would provide electricity to the world population, including the 1.6 billion people who currently have no access to it.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in an address to the Fourth World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi that energy provisions can help fight poverty and improve health care services as part of the Millennium Development Goals for the developing world.

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UN: 1.6 billion people still have no access to electricity

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Better Sanitation Could Save 2 Million Lives A Year - Study

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  • Bad sanitation, water account for 7 percent of global disease
  • Billions of people have no access to hygienic toilets
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Nearly 20 percent of the world's population still defecates in the open, and action to improve hygiene, sanitation and water supply could prevent more than 2 million child deaths a year, health experts said on Monday.
 

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Human Development Report Shows Great Gains, And Some Slides

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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

UNITED NATIONS — The world has made significant progress in income, education and health over the past 40 years, but the gains have been uneven and in some places war and the ravages of AIDS shortened life spans, according to a

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ANALYSIS: Asia's Water Scarcity Poses Economic, Political Test

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 Source: ReutersBy Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent JINGHONG, China, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Framed by banana and eucalyptus trees, the caramel-coloured Mekong river rolls through this lush corner of Yunnan province in southwestern China with an unerring rhythm that is reassuring in its seeming timelessness. Yet as recently as April, a fearsome drought had shrivelled the Mekong to its narrowest in 50 years.

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China Moving Heaven And Earth To Bring Water To Beijing

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The $62-billion South-North Water Diversion, which will bring water to the parched capital, is being compared to the Great Wall. But environmentalists are up in arms about the 'replumbing' of the nation's great rivers.

Engineer Han Jiping in an aqueduct being built in China’s Henan province. Water will be rerouted from the wet south to the dry north. (Jonathan Watts, unknown / September 29, 2010)

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Zhengzhou, China —

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