Flowing away: water and health opportunities

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Doi:10.2471/BLT.07.049619 Despite long-standing evidence that water sanitation and hygiene are fun-damental to health, health institutions have become distanced from water and sanitation since the 1970s. In developing countries, some 2.6 billion people invest a significant propor-tion of their household time or money in simply securing drinking-water or somewhere private to defecate.1 In the European Union, planners are preoccu-pied with the cost of serving the public’s preference for bathing in sewage-free seas – as enshrined in the Bathing Wate