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When was the last time you read/heard anything about Haiti? It's now 'old news' and that people live in overcrowded camps is simply not 'newsworthy' despite the health risks they face daily.
Water is vital to life. Without it more Haitians will die. Water-related diseases will take their toil unless people can return to their local communities and have access to with clean, safe water supplies and proper sanitation.
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With the rainy season soon arriving there are new fears that Haiti will face an outbreak of new diseases like cholera. Patrick Delatour, Minister of Tourism said “Just the drainage and the lack of sanitation and what that water is going to mean when it starts carrying all of those contaminants and fluids will just be a disaster on top of a disaster." Via Yahoo! News. 16 February 2010
"Cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases could soon sweep the chaotic and cramped refugee camps. Shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and toilets are creating a potential spawning ground for sickness...puddles of filthy water that breed mosquitoes have begun to spread diseases such as dengue and malaria."
London Metro, 1 February 2010
'Our main concern in terms of the running of the orphanage...... is whether we will be able to access fresh water..'
Susan Westwood. Scottish Nurse outside Port-au-Prince
'There is no water.There's nothing. Thirsty people are going to die.'
Medicins son Frontieres
'No, i cant share this water w/you.Since dawn i've been searching for water for my family. Ijust found some, and we are lucky- we will drink.'
Bhatiap - Tweet
'Basic work on sanitation needs to start now'
Christian Aid
"Haiians are working frantically with bare hands and,eventually, wheelbarrows brought water to those alive...Large extended families camped out under tarpaulins with no food and no water except from occasional visits by water tanker trucks."
Giles Whittell for The Times.
"We have nothing. Nothing to eat and nother to drink until today (16/1)."
Joanne Hermanten, mother of five.
"Looters have emptied food shops, and scuffles have broken out amongs survivors fighting over scarce water..."
The Times
"Shortages of drinking water were widely reported and fight broke out in the streets....a water delivery driver was attacked in one of the city's slums."
Tony Allen-Mills/Marie Colven reporting for The Sunday Times
