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For all too many developing countries, it is a case of “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”. In many of the Least Developed Countries, safe drinking water and excreta disposal facilities are sadly inadequate.
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Miss Uma Ram Nath is a freelance journalist from New Delhi, India, writing on Third World development themes.
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Nath, U.R. The cost of water. Environmentalist 3, 295–298 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02316392
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02316392