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Water for Survival
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Oxfam Water for Survival Programme
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| One in five of the world’s people lives without safe water. |
Clean water is so essential to life that most of us here in New Zealand simply take it for granted. But one in five of the world’s people lives without safe water and two in five lack even basic sanitation.
Ill-health from drinking dirty water is one of the most serious threats to human life. In the next 24 hours, diarrhoea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation will claim the lives of 4,000 children.
The Oxfam Water for Survival Programme supports work to provide clean water and sanitation and hygiene education programmes
for people in some of the world's poorest regions.
Where we work
The Water for Survival Programme has doubled in recent years. In particular, the programme in the Pacific and East Asia has been expanded, as a part of Oxfam New Zealand's focus on poverty in our neighborhood.
Currently, Oxfam is supporting long-term projects in:
Water and basic rights
Without safe water and sanitation nearby, people find it impossible to escape the downward spiral of poverty and disease.
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