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Thursday, 23 October 2008

Malawi: Cabinet passes sanitation policy

Cabinet has finally nodded to the Sanitation Policy, a provision that would give the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development enforcement mechanisms on sanitation especially in the provision of clean water to Malawians.(…)

“For example, a Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in 2006 indicates that hand washing, probably the most effective and inexpensive way to prevent water-borne diseases, is done on a meagre 2 percent at a time here in Malawi,” she added. (…)

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