World Malaria Day: highlighting awareness of a preventable disease that still kills tho... - 0 views
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BBC News - Why do 17,000 under-fives die daily? - 0 views
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"A "staggering" number of children around the world are dying before the age of five, according to the United Nation's child agency. Unicef' s latest figures estimate every day 17,000 under-fives die - 6.3 million a year - from largely preventable causes. This is despite the overall rate of infant mortality having been halved in the past two decades."
The Ebola Fiasco - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is a tragedy. But, more than that, the response to it has been a gross failure. It's a classic case where early action could have saved lives and money. Yet the world dithered, and with Ebola cases in Liberia now doubling every two to three weeks, the latest worst-case estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that there could be 1.4 million cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone by late January."
Bangkok Post : Needed: political will to keep water in check - 0 views
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Take the instance of water management which is on all our minds at the moment. We have a comprehensive study of 25 river basins as the basis for a master plan for water resources management, which would resolve all our water woes, from drought to floods. But past governments have let this slide during annual budget allocations, shoved aside for other items high on the political agenda.
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It is therefore necessary that we rethink and redesign our urban zoning arrangements.
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The Royal Department of Irrigation has admitted that the amount of rainfall this year has not been much more than in 1995 or 2006, but the dykes and smaller community dams built to prevent flooding in particular areas have caused flooding in other areas. So, uncoordinated action undertaken to push away a problem has ended up hurting everyone. Thus, centrally coordinated planning is required.
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